The new development brings much-needed stores and restaurants to the neighborhood, along with hundreds of new jobs

Desiree Duar pushed her friend Levi Kingston in his wheelchair through the grocery aisles at Target.

“I was thinking about maybe a salad, or I might get bread to make some sandwiches or something,” Duar said, touching a packaged salad in a display case. Duar, who grew up in the neighborhood around USC, was checking out the university’s latest development, USC Village on Saturday.

“I’m really excited to see this,” she said. “It’s long overdue for change.”

Hundreds of people from the community were invited to a special open house Saturday to see the $700 million redevelopment of USC Village, at the corner of Hoover Street and Jefferson Boulevard.

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