There is an odd case of cohabitation happening along the riverside of Beirut, a situation in which what remains of the agricultural lands now residual and unused, floats around the remains of an industrial area already in decay. Throughout continuous and progressive urbanization along with a sense of necessity for industrialization, the riverside area of Mkalles have witnessed a complete mutation from an agricultural area to a densely urbanized industrial one. Today, Mkalles Industrial Area (MIA) is a forsaken part on the edge of the city paying the high price for ineffective modernist planning tools such as zoning and lack of authorities’ decision making and smart action planning, hence, the high percentage (almost 65%) of unused/ abandoned/residual spaces within its fabric. The area started shifting from agricultural land to industrial by attracting limited but large-scale industrial factories and warehouses as early as the 1960’s.