Our View: West is the city's future

The area west of Green River, past Jamestown, is poised to explode with development in the next few years.

A Love’s Travel Stop is going through the permitting process and should that project come to fruition, it wouldn’t be hard to see other developments like a restaurant or some other business built to attract people off of Interstate 80.

With that realization, it seems like the vision of past mayors to see expansion west of Green River was the correct course for the city to take and unfortunately, failed to navigate to completion.

Past projects like the sections of land former mayor Hank Ca...