Mount Airy?s Main Street will return to the look and feel of the downtowns of old, rebounding from the Sept. 2 blaze that devoured two historic buildings and destroyed seven businesses.

Town planning commissioners compromised Monday night, forging forward by approving plans to set the razed Bohn building?s replacement 20 feet off the sidewalk.

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