UpDate on Amish Construction Ozark MO Look at 3rd St
Channel: Buddy Huggins
Date: 2017-06-22

A refurbishing trend has become contagious in old Ozark neighborhoods.

The various projects, from Third Street to the neighborhoods just north of the square, are slowly breathing life back into a part of town that hasn’t seen interest in decades.

“The most satisfying part of doing projects like this is getting people to come back and fall in love with something that was run down,” Torgerson said. “There’s a generation of people, basically those between the ages of 25-40, where recycling is a really popular thing right now. Not just here, but across the country. We take something about to be demolished and take it apart, save it, recycle it and add on to it and keep an era-specific look. It’s kind of cool to take something old, bring it back and make it useful again.”
And it appears the revitalization trend on old homes isn’t going away anytime soon.

“Right now I’m focused on the downtown — the core — of Ozark,” Torgerson said. “We plan to keep going. That’s our mission, that’s our goal, to revitalize Ozark.”

By: Don Abernathy, 
http://ccheadliner.com/news/revitalization-row/article_c6a67bd8-2cde-11e6-9d2d-df35b803698d.html

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