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This has been great at facilitating small business redevelopment and ease of access thereof throughout California. I hope Lexington goes through with it.
It worked well in the past, when downtown Lexington had the vast majority of retail stores in the city: Stewart's, Wolf Wile's, Purcell's, and Ben Snyder's were the big flagship department stores, and there were many other clothing stores downtown as well: Bloomfield's, Embry's, Loom and Needle...and more. Plus shoe stores, variety stores ("ten cent stores", aka "five and dimes"), hotels, restaurants, and movie theaters: the elegant Ben Ali and the Strand especially. The Opera House had a terrible reputation and few respectable people ever went there to see third-run movies!
If we still had such places downtown, no doubt two-way traffic would work. Whether it will work to bring such places back or not is anyone's guess - what's happened in other cities which have tried this?
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