** Do not park on Pioneer or Flying Cloud! There is parking in the garden area or gas station. **
As you approach GZ, take a look south across Pioneer and then read on ...
The May 17, 1989, issue of the Eden Prairie News reported that BFI was set to build a recycling plant on the site of the Flying Cloud Drive-In Theatre, along then-Highway 169 (across Flying Cloud Drive from Flying Cloud Airport) in Eden Prairie.
"The Flying Cloud Drive-In Theatre ... may soon be replaced by a garbage recycling facility to be built and owned by Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. (BFI)," the story said.
"BFI, which owns the adjacent Flying Cloud Landfill, completed the purchase of the 17-acre drive-in property from Eden Amusement Co. and its owner, R.J. O'Neil, last week.
"The theater had opened for business this spring but had since been closed," the story said.
BFI planned a two-story, 30,000-square-foot "recyclery," where dry waste from BFI's commercial and industrial accounts would be sorted and processed.