At last

The areas of bare land that are centered in this Google Maps image are what remains of a badly aged and mostly unoccupied strip mall near my home that was demolished a few years ago. (The only building that remained, as can be seen in the image, is a mortgage firm.)

The bare ground has slowly become major weed farms while the city has been going through the process of taking proposals for development of the site, getting comments from the community planning group and the city planning department, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Since the weed farms have become such a huge eyesore, I've been happy to see that it appears everything has finally been resolved and decided on what to do with the site and development is starting to happen. I've seen bulldozers that clearly have been working with the bare patches of ground, and also seen evidence of work being done on portions of the sidewalk that borders the site.