The construction site for a new KFC restaurant is seen Friday in the Concord Plaza retail center at Concord Road and County Road 350 South. The restaurant is being built on a site that was to be occupied by a Steak N Shake restaurant, but people planning that decided not to proceed. By John Terhune/Journal & Courier

By Max Showalter, Journal & Courier

mshowalter@journalandcourier.com

Groundbreaking ceremonies and ribbon-cutting events to welcome new businesses to the area along Tippecanoe County Road 350 South don't happen as frequently these days as two or three years ago.

And, similar to commercial and retail development elsewhere, the economy is at least partly to blame for the slowdown on the south side of Lafayette.

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