Developer Shaffin Jetha has worked on hotels in Mount Vernon and apartments near Patterson Park, but the west side is a new neighborhood for him — and that’s part of its appeal.
“The land rush hasn’t hit that part of the city yet,” said Jetha, whose Focus Development plans a $40 million mix of residences and retail in both historic rehab and new construction along Fayette Street. “We have an opportunity to help change the neighborhood.”
The west side, Market Center, UniverCity Center, the Bromo Tower Arts District — officials aren’t quite sure what to call the blocks just west of downtown, where dozens of publicly owned properties lie vacant and deteriorating in depressing testimony to one of the city’s biggest failed urban renewal efforts.
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