New visions
for Highway 33 Gas
station rehab just a start, businessman Kearns says
By
KYLE ZWIEG - GM Today Staff
May 7, 2008
WEST BEND - If one local businessman has
his way, the West Paradise Drive retail strip will eventually be
eclipsed as the city’s quickestgrowing by another on the city’s
northwest side.
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Kearns Motor Car Co. owner Steve
Kearns of Slinger has scooped up several properties along West
Washington Street (Highway 33) and will begin what he describes as a
gradual re-envisioning of its retail corridor with a major
renovation at an aging convenience store complex.
"I think it’s an eyesore," Kearns said of the EZ In
& Out, 3100 W. Washington St., which is home to a small
convenience mart and the decade-old Presto Italiano restaurant.
