If you’ve been staking out the demolition action around the Starbucks drive-thru at the corner of Buffalo Speedway and S. Main St., a block north of the South Loop, you’ll know crews have now knocked down the entire vacant strip center at 9714 Buffalo Speedway as well as the former America’s Best Value Inn at 9604 S. Main St. behind it. For the rest of us, a couple of pics sent in by a reader will help you catch up on what’s been going down to make way for a rumored townhome development from InTown Homes.

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The view above shows the motel mid-takedown earlier this month. Below: piles of rubble as seen from the CVS parking lot across S. Main, last week.

• Previously on Swamplot: A Townhome Takeover for the Corner of South Main and Buffalo Speedway

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