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Businesses fight to stay relevant, visible near Old Highway 81

By Moses Leos III

World Services of Austin owner Willie Cisneros remembers a time when he and other businesses thrived along the two-way U.S. Highway 81 in Kyle. 

But the restructure of U.S. 81 into its current one-way format along IH-35 is taking away business from Cisneros. Now he fights to stay relevant along what is slowly becoming a forgotten section of the city. 

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