Matt Froman has been waiting a long time for the rebirth of the Phoenix Pharmacy building.
He thought it would happen in 1999, when his father bought the two-story brick building with the distinctive rounded aluminum-and-glass storefront on the corner of Southeast 67th Avenue and Foster Road.
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