Chester County has struggled for years to captialize on its I-77 frontage to attract economic development by attempting to market the area around the SC 9 interchange with I-77 Thus far, those efforts have been good for a few gas stations and hotels, a failed car dealership and an undeveloped industrial park adjacent to the southwestern quadrant of the interchange.

According to one reader we heard from on the matter, "Chester has spent a fortune on a supposed "gateway" to Chester off of #9 Highway and 77 highway. The bought a defunct car dealership to remake into a convention center...it is an absolute joke and this gateway goes nowhere ... hoping to "sell" the gateway center for conventions, proms for the schools. But, there is nothing but a few fast food places and a few low cost motels."