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The US 31 and SR 4 Interchange as a Retail Cluster — Tested, and It Is Farmland

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Banked record, 2011 Lakeville Comprehensive Plan interchange material in Farms & Crops lk-frm-conversion; current listings as searched November 2026

The malls leg had never tested the interchange node at the town's edge as a retail cluster; the test is run here on the plan's own judgment and the present listings, and the node prints at its true size.The present listings agree with the plan's forecast: no retail cluster stands at US 31 and SR 4 in any listing reached in November 2026 — no centre, no pad site, no cluster of the kind the interchange towns further north display. The bypass that opened on 27 August 2014 moved the through-traffic past the town without planting a retail node at its exit, and the ground remains what the soil record says it is: farm ground at the edge of a town whose only retail street is Michigan Street, a mile's remove from the ramps. The class prints empty, on evidence, not on assumption.

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Source: The US 31 and SR 4 Interchange as a Retail Cluster — Tested, and It Is Farmland, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/malls/us-31-and-sr-4-interchange-as-a-retail/