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The subject was situated in the central portion of one of the most popular commercial strips in the city. The general neighborhood is defined as the block wide corridor along North Main from the downtown area on the south to the Loop on the north. Land use varies from vacant sites, to older single-tenant metal and masonry buildings used for retail and offices, to restaurants to car lots and even an apartment complex. The street has traditionally been dominated by the auto and truck industry and is the primary used car strip in the city. It also has a number of tire, auto, and transmission repair shops; parts dealerships; wrecking yards; and one new car dealership. This strip is about 95% built out and most vacant lots resulted from razing old structures. As mentioned above, North Main street is one of the primary traffic arteries in the city and county and is only surpassed by the NE Loop, Lamar Avenue, and North Collegiate Drive in popularity as a retail, office, and commercial location. This strip ranks above South Church, Bonham and Clarksville streets in commercial appeal and popularity. North Main street in front of the subject has two lanes, which extend north from the downtown area to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, approximately 3 00' north of the subj ect before becoming four lanes thereafter. The traffic count on this portion of North Main street is about 9,767 cars per day. The immediate neighborhood is defined as the North Main strip between Clement Road and Provine Street. This eleven block strip has mostly single-tenant commercial uses, and the subject is a corner site on the west side of North Main, the east side of 1" NW, and the south side of Santa Fe street. Directly north across Santa Fe, there is an old masonry building and parking lot that were the last remaining improvements of the former Gulf Oil distributorship but presently used as a pre-owned auto dealership, To the north of it, there is a large, multi-story, 60+ year old, masonry industrial building that is mostly vacant but a small portion is used as a welding and machine shop. To the west across 1St NW, there is a metal shop/garage for a limo car service with vacant land to the west of it and old, single -family frame dwellings to the south along the west side of 1St NW. The subject joins a 23,744 SF site improved with a single-story masonry building currently used as an insurance office. Directly south of it, there is a street-to-street site improved with an 19-year-old, 3,260 SF metal shop building used as an auto glass repair business. To the east across North Main, there is a used car lot and there is another used car lot to the north of it, which occupies the northeast corner of the intersection with Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The most typical new building found on the North Main strip have traditionally been single-tenant metal buildings for some type of automotive service or repair. The newest completed commercial construction was the 9,180 SF retail building completed in 2021 for anew Family Dollar store, which is on a 42,689 SF site about eight blocks north of the subject at 1855 North Main.(Sale 1) There is a 2,800 SF metal building nearing cornpletion and it will be used as a laundromat. It is situated about seven blocks south of the subject on a 22,861 SF site on the northeast corner of North Main and Pine Bluff, which was purchased in 2021. (Sale 2) Therefore, this section of North Main is still a viable commercial strip with a variety of land uses. The future trend along this strip will be one of slow growth with continued emphasis on auto and truck related uses, (mainly in sales and service) and its popularity for commercial use will continue to lag well behind the eastern part of Lamar Avenue, North Collegiate, the northeast segment of Loop 286, and the northernmost portion of North Main. PAT MURPHY & ASSOCIATES 9