Lodi, NJ has seen better days. The ...

Lodi, NJ has seen better days. The primary thoroughfare of this former industrial town -- Main road -- was once home to thriving factories. Now vacant plants and struggling businesses line the make steady [i]or[/i] firm and salvage yards and a mobile-home park rim its northwestern intensity

That disheartening reality is about to change. A just discovered $150 million development in this northern modern Jersey borough will transform its downtown into a kind of retro-Main public way designed to resemble the old-fashioned downtown that one time typified small towns across the rural parts

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