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maintenance
Space used for heavy-duty non-retail maintenance, repair, and upkeep of products and facilities.
Maintenance facilities are industrial-type sites used for non-retail upkeep, repair, cleaning, fixing, and renewal of products, goods, machinery, vehicles, grounds, and other objects.
The work keeps existing objects or facilities in usable condition, restores them, or renews them. The objects can be machines or vehicles, but the scope also includes goods and grounds.
The industrial, non-retail setting distinguishes these facilities from customer-facing repair shops. Product repair and machinery service describe more particular maintenance activities.
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manufacturing
Industrial space in which goods are produced or assembled through manual labor, machinery, or both. -
mining
Sites for extracting inorganic or fossil-related natural resources from the earth for use or sale. -
utilities
Structures which serve the collection and distribution of energy and basic necessary materials.