itsrak
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Around April of 2018 on a whim I checked yelp ratings for other businesses in the Gateway complex, hoping to find a clue. Yelp was new and not widely used at the time, yet I found a yelp comment dating to around 2007 that mentioned a stench. So, if you read April 2018 or so websleuths threads you'll find that discussion. A patron of the Gateway Cinema, the entrance to which was right where Brian was last seen on video (entrance to UTS on one side of escalator, entrance to cinema on the opposite side) had circa 2007 or so provided a yelp rating of the cinema and mentioned the awful stench.rsbm
Was there a stench reported in the building months or years later? I hadn’t heard that part. Do you have a link to an article? Or do you recall about when that happened? I’m curious to read more about it.
You'll also find discussion of the Sunflower Market, which is what came to occupy what is referred to as 'the construction area', which was on the street level one floor below and to the south of the space UTS then occupied. Sunflower Market was a whole foods type grocery that opened around Sept 7, 2006, around 5 months after Brian went missing. I'm pretty confident that if Brian entered the construction area, as Hurst has surmised he well may have, he was in space that came to be occupied by Sunflower Market. If Brian's remains are ever discovered in the complex in which he was last seen, I believe it likely they would be found in/under the former (it closed a year or two after opening) Sunflower Market space, which has since been converted to office space, or perhaps under the elevator shaft (if I understood Hurst correctly in the recent podcast interview, the elevator shaft (the elevator doors were located nearly directly under the surveillance cam that made the last known images of Brian as he conversed with Amber and Brightan) was under construction at the time, elevator cab not yet installed, just a dirt hole at the base at the time). There was also talk of a stench in UTS, but it was after all a bar.
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