By Tom Weber, KWMU
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St. Louis, MO – You could call it Missouri's "Big Dig" just without the tunnels and the multibillion-dollar cost over-runs that Boston had.
Missouri's Department of Transportation is spending more than $500 million to rip up and completely rebuild a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 64. The project, through the heart of the St. Louis metropolitan region, started a couple of months ago.
The big mess, though, won't come until next year when both directions of the highway will be closed down for two years. Businesses along the I-64 corridor aren't exactly sure what that might mean for them, but they're not waiting around to find out.
KWMU's Tom Weber prepared this report for Marketplace.
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