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Street could be reborn The restaurant opened Feb. 21, and Huaracha said business has been good. Glenn isn’t surprised at Acambaro’s success at the Seventh Street location. He said West Seventh Street took a hard hit years ago when Wal-Mart moved out of the Joplin West Plaza and farther west to Schifferdecker Avenue, but Systems & Services Technologies Inc. moved into the vacated building in 2004, bringing hundreds of employees with it. “Now these people have to eat lunch in that area and shop there, and that’s a huge thing,” he said. The expansion of West Seventh Street continues, with a new Liberty Bank location going in just east of the Wal-Mart Supercenter. Glenn said portions of Seventh Street from Maiden Lane to Main Street will continue to progress, but at a slower pace than the stretch farther west because there are many residential properties right against the street, along with an abundance of used-car lots. Closer to Main Street, he said, several of the old residential properties have been torn down in the past few years, replaced by offices for upscale law firms and other businesses. Many of the same factors come into play for Seventh Street from Main Street to Range Line road, with vacated businesses being filled not with other retailers, but industrial types of businesses that cannot take advantage of the heavy traffic flow. “Every town has to have those kind of businesses,” Glenn said. “They just don’t make people stop.” A fresh start While much of the recent commercial focus has been on 32nd Street, Glenn said the area near Seventh Street and Range Line Road is probably still the busiest and most expensive commercial real estate in all of Joplin. The retail attraction of Seventh Street and Range Line Road is expanding east with the completion of North Park Crossing — which offers a diverse group of clothing stores, craft shops and restaurants — the expansion of Target, and the Missouri Department of Transportation’s recent announcement that the Range Line bypass will be completed in 2010. While there are still many “For Sale” or “For Lease” signs in the windows of properties all along Seventh Street, Glenn said a little foresight can get businesses a prime piece of land at second-tier prices. Coffey said Seventh Street often is underrated, but it still is considered the No. 3 choice for businesses to locate. “I think Seventh Street can come back — maybe not to the way it was in the very beginning, but it all comes down to the number of cars that travel down it every day,” he said. Face-lifts for existing businesses also can help propel Seventh Street’s popularity, Coffey said. Sometimes people are just looking for a sense of freshness, he said, like the remodeling of longtime Joplin nightclub Red Lion that is under way. Glenn compared Seventh Street’s position with that of East 32nd Street 15 years ago, when he built the Creekside shopping mall next to what used to be a car auction business. He said he sensed the momentum on 32nd Street, and knew that the property would be a commercial hot spot someday and that the auto auction would be no more. He said it took a little longer than he expected, but 15 years later, the shopping center now sits next to the recently completed Hilton Garden Inn. 
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