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    GALLERY: Western Ave. - Staff photo by Joe Phelan | of | Share this photo

    Construction work for a car wash is underway at the former Capital Buffet site on the corner of Pet Haven Lane and Western Avenue.

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    Two neighboring Western Avenue buildings are under renovation. The one on the left is scheduled to become the new Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce office, and the one on the right will be a pizza shop.

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    A Homewood Suites hotel rises, at top in a photo taken Thursday, on a Western Avenue lot that was vacant in October 2014, at bottom.

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    James Merrill checks the door of a Starbucks coffee shop Thursday in Journal Square in Augusta. Just built but not open yet, it is one several new businesses that are coming soon to Western Avenue.

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