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That will spur much more Development on the southwest side of the City. Much Needed!!
That activity could spur growth at Smith Valley Rd. in few years.
Not so much. The west side of I-69 at Smith Valley is largely flood plain and/or groundwater-sensitive area. It needs to remain mostly undeveloped. The east side of I-69 has existing single-family residential almost right up to the interstate.
Chris, that is true. Forgot about the FP area.
The only place to do development at Smith Valley would be to tear out the Speedway … or if the church at the former West Grove school sold. A church that was basically given that land, IIRC …
The lot being developed at Southport has long been earmarked for development … you can practically tell where they developed Southern Dunes up to where they thought the interstate would come in. The apartment complex at the southeast corner, though, somehow got away with building up to the edge of the road after I-69 was developed … which jacked up the price of land acquisition to where the state chose to had to implement a pretty sub-par intersection that will somehow manage to make east-west travel in the area even worse. Four stoplights, no roundabouts.
I will be curious to see what happens on the northeast corner of Southport. I personally anticipate a lot of I-69 commuters will choose to exit on Southport and take Bluff into downtown.
Sorry, should have said
“building up to the edge of the road after I-69 was announced”
Joe, most of the land between Harding and 69 north of Southport is owned by Citizens Water and there are public water supply wells on the property. I wouldn’t expect heavy commercial development there. No auto or truck service, certainly.
I’d expect more/better development at the SE corner of County Line and 69/Bluff. It’s pretty underwhelming right now.
Should have written “most of the land between 69 and Harding along the north side of Southport”
I believe there’s a 30 acre lot on the north side of Southport that either was or is on the market. It looks like from the FEMA maps that it would have the same restrictions as what was developed on the other side of Southport around 20 years ago or so, most of which was demolished to build the interchange.
It’s definitely a challenge to develop along I-69 due to the existing residential and the flood plain. I think the finishing off of Southern Dunes as described in this article is going to fill a big need.
I thought more was planned at SR144 and I-69?