Will a new interstate, cause more parks...

To be built. Some of you may know of the project to extended Interstate 69 from Central Indiana to the Mexico Border. I think this might encourage new projects to be developed along the path of this road as it will become a major north-south route in the central U.S.

What do you guys think?

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Kind of an off the topic question in reply, Micheal, but is there a website that details this proposed expansion? I'm curious of its course.

Thanks for the help if you know.

Chris

Here are a couple
http://www.i69forindiana.com/

http://www.i69indyevn.org/

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*** This post was edited by Michael W. Moss on 1/21/2002. ***

I predict such an interstate will produce a drastic spike in:
A: Petrol Dispensing Facilities
B: Affordable Temporary Lodging
C: Inexpensive Eateries Specializing in Rapidly-Prepared Meals

but I dont think an interstate will spawn an amusement park. If anything, the opposite would be true.
jeremy
--"I want a bib too!" Abe Simpson

Large urban areas spawn amusement parks, and large urban areas often develop in light of interstates, but the development takes decades.

The city I live in outside of Cleveland is a perfect example. When I-71 first opened (I want to say late 50's or early 60's), the Greater Cleveland area was easy to define. Now, we might say it ends in Brunswick, a city that didn't get its charter until the mid-70's, but the next city south is growing north and east, which kind of makes it an Akron suburb as well. Go down the I-77 coridor from Cleveland to Akron and it is "filling in" as well. The area as a whole is slowly growing into this giant metroplex that includes Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Lorain, etc.

Granted, we already have several parks here, but they couldn't have grown if it wasn't for the expansion. In fact, I'd be willing to be SFGAm cropped up because Mariott saw the potential and growth associated with the freeway.

I-69 connects a lot of markets, and will likely help to grow them, but not create new ones.

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Jeff said:
 In fact, I'd be willing to be SFGAm cropped up because Mariott saw the potential and growth associated with the freeway.
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The potential of the tollway and the fact that Gurnee is pretty much geographically midway between two major cities. Chicago and Milwaukee. Its the same reason that Gurnee Mills was constructed.

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