re: Today's Advocate headline, "I-10 widening garners little enthusiasm"

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You mean the sandwich shop and restaurant built in place of the old hardware store that burned? That's pretty much it for development there in the last 50 years.

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Yeah that isn't true.

50 years? I grew up one street off the overpass. It has changed a shite ton. That whole strip with jimmy johns/sushi/yoga studio/etc, Zippys, Parrains, Schlitz, Chelsea's moving under the overpass, Ivars changing owners and remodeling, etc. They also added sidewalks, landscaping, redid the roads, added a median further down the road, etc.

It used to be a gas station and a hardware store (and Icehouse).