SBJ.net Poll

What has prevented you from frequenting Commercial Street?

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What Readers Think

Perceived safety issues

Safety is a huge concern of mine. I understand that 19 or so businesses have opened within the last year on Commercial Street, but I don’t see much positive advertising for the area. Negative word of mouth still has a hold on the Springfield area in my opinion. Is there anything we can do to change that?

—Alvin Mewhirter, Xponix, Inc.

Doesn’t have needed businesses/services

Here is one solution: Find a new location for the Missouri Hotel. … This will take Commercial Street’s rugged background off the minds of many and open the

eyes of the area’s entrepreneurs and developers.

—Aaron Plymire, Anchor Properties and Realty

Current Question

What Fortune 500 company would you like to see come to Springfield?

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