Behind the slave-catcher we can almost glimpse the police officer misusing lethal force; behind the manacles on the walls of a train depot, the bars of mass incarceration.
Not surprisingly, many people have conflicting ideas about what should become of the area and its local landmarks, among them the Michael J. Quill Transit Authority bus depot, a half-dozen gas stations and Edelweiss, a transsexual hustler bar.
The idea is nothing new in Europe, where you can routinely go to bars or wine depots and fill up empty bottles with the inexpensive local wine.
In 2008, Chhun was convicted of orchestrating the Cambodian attack, as well as a series of small-scale "popcorn" attacks aimed at karaoke bars and fuel depots that killed at least six people, including innocent bystanders.
The land in a once-industrial neighborhood is now dotted with warehouses, taxi depots, an outdoor bar and a shuttered restaurant that was at the center of a corruption scandal for the city's mayor.
The bar, built in a converted gas depot, has everything traditional pubs do not.
The Scene On Friday nights, gay and straight couples in jeans and sweaters sit at the bar in the G.W. Tavern in Washington Depot eating salads and burgers.
In 1937, the train depot became a casino and bar called the Rhyolite Ghost Casino, which was later turned into a small museum and curio shop that remained open into the 1970s.
10 p.m. 9. BACK TO BASICS At Donn's Depot (1600 West Fifth Street; 512-478-0336; donnsdepianoom), a piano bar and saloon housed in an old train depot, couples of all ages are hoofin' it on the dance floor while bar tenders who look as though they never go home serve old-fashions and bottles of Lone Star.
Inside, they've erected a supermarket, a petrol station, a pecan-nut processing plant, a cafe, a bar, a cornershop, a pottery workshop, a farm equipment depot, an estate agent.
The opponents hope to obstruct their plans by barring the train's access to an old Southern Pacific depot in St. Helena, but if they do, Mr. McCormack indicated, they were likely to end up in court.
