Cape Girardeau readies for downtown sidewalk project | seMissourian.com

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Longtime jeweler Kent Zickfield has operated a store on Cape Girardeau's Main Street for decades. The city's plan to spruce up downtown with new sidewalks, lighting, benches, walkways and green space will mean some construction headaches for its businesses next year and challenges for customers trying to get to stores.

But Zickfield says the inconvenience will be worth it in the long run.

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Cape Girardeau readies for downtown sidewalk project | seMissourian.com

MoBikeFed comment: More and more cities across Missouri are seeing the value of maintaining, improving, extending, and filling gaps in their sidewalk systems. Such projects keep Missouri cities competitive in an age when complete, connected sidewalk systems are a basic expectation of cities across the U.S. and in industrialized countries across the world.