It seems like nearly every month there s a new subdivision in the works near the interstate. Southern Pines in Ormond Beach. Town Park in Port Orange. They put in a couple golf courses and the headquarters for the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Now that it s got a new clubhouse, the place is really supposed to take off.
Commercial development seems to be following, leaking westward like toothpaste squeezed from a tube.
Bill thinks of Circuit City. It moved in 1999 into a new site on International Speedway Boulevard near I-95, leaving its old site on Nova Road once considered the west side of Daytona Beach, now closer to the midpoint. The electronics shop was quickly surrounded with clothing stores, an office supply store and new restaurants. Even First Baptist Church of Daytona Beach is planning to sell its downtown church building and relocate west, probably near the interstate. Bill sees the same thing back home in Kentucky.