Most people believe that industrial parks are a twentieth century idea.
To site a mass of industrial concerns in one confined area is certainly efficient and prevents unwanted intrusion into quiet residential neighborhoods. But, in The Bronx, the first to have this idea, and to act upon it, was Jordan L. Mott. Born in 1798 in Manhasset, Long Island, Mott was blessed with a creative imagination. So radical was this idea, that foundry owners refused to manufacture one from his blueprints. Mott then resolved to start his own foundry.