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Carrier and listing record read November 2026, at the strengths stated in the businesses and hotels files
The corridor in November 2026 is still the 1927 pattern, at modern scale. Food runs the length of it: a German gasthaus at 115 North, coffee at 103, pizza at 119, a sandwich-and-pizza house's newest location at 309, gyros at 501, a pancake house at 508, chain chicken at 231 — and at the south end a Bob Evans at 204 South and a bar and grill at 103 South whose present owner the Tribune names, with some forty years of the house's own history behind him. Fuel stands at 110 South (Phillips 66) and 405 South (Marathon). The lumber yard holds its 1928 ground at 125 North under the Big C name, renovated as a design showroom; a fruit market's address at 125 South trades today as a fruit and garden center. Five flagged motels stand in town, carried in the hotels file. Against that fullness the vacancies print plainly: a family-restaurant building at 423 South stands permanently closed, a drive-through restaurant building at 320 South stands empty, and a former pet shop at 202 North is offered for lease under a county zoning label on a town-numbered address — an anomaly printed whole in the businesses file. North of the line the corridor does not stop; it changes jurisdiction. The used-car row, the county's franchised BMW and Mazda house, and the nearest bank branch all stand on State Road 933 in unincorporated Clay Township under South Bend postal addresses, and each is carried at boundary strength, in the files that own their trades — because the corridor's economy has never respected the town line even though the town's history must.