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In in the 50's/60's and 70s' you had people working at Exxon and Downtown so North BR was it, then everything starting developing towards the South in the late 60s/early 70's..what is present day Acadian, College, Perkins, all the way to Siegen, etc. People wanted to go where the new stuff was, some enjoyed taking over previous space that became less desirable. I wasn't born until the the 80s, that's all I've got.

Development on Siegen is much more recent. I was born in 1979 and Siegen was still a gravel road between Perkins and Highland when I was a kid. There was almost nothing on Siegen until the old movie theater was built and then later the North Mall shopping center with the bridge over the train tracks.

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Posted by kingbob

Sorrento, LA

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 6/23/16 at 2:02 pm to MLCLyons

Yeah, I remember Siegan getting developed in the mid 90s. I remember going to Tinseltown shortly after it opened to see Men In Black.

One big impediment for the growth of south br was the landowners. Several families owned large tracks of land that suddenly were accessible after the interstate was built. One catelist was the farmer who donated a portion of his land to build OLOL Hospital. He made a killing developing the rest into restaurants, offices, and apartments.

That's why everything out there looks so haphazard. It was done one at a time by farmers and developers with little oversight and no overall vision or plan, hence the absense of connectivity.

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