Downtown growing up

As Columbia aims to redevelop downtown by going more vertical, some residents and property owners are feeling squeezed out
Saturday, March 3, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CST; updated 7:23 p.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008

Chris Harrison plops down on his sofa to watch television after a night of frying chicken and slicing meat in the deli at Gerbes Supermarket. The haphazard clutter of his apartment is evidence of the two decades he’s lived in the small white house on Locust Street.

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