Commercial Development in Whose Interest? It looks like the handwriting is on the wall. With the potential demise of Joe’s Garage at the Westside Shell station, Bend appears well on its way to becoming a little Los Angeles—where all pretense of any community resistance to purely self-interested corporate strategies of commercial development died decades ago. […]
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A New Home for Joe’s Garage?
The company owned by Mario Andretti bought the Westside Shell property in 2017. Now the father and son who run the longtime garage are on the hunt for a new location
Joe Palmeri may not necessarily be a household name in Bend, but many people know who he is. Palmeri has run Joe’s Garage at the Westside Shell station in Bend for 33 years — but that station may be closed before the end of the year. “I’ve spent half my life here. Exactly, to the […]