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Kearns industrial area has had dirt roads for 73 years. Now officials predict newly paved byways will lead to a business boom.

Kearns • At the end of World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force closed Camp Kearns training base, and its northwest corner full of warehouses was converted into an industrial area. But for 73 years, it lacked paved roads — until now.

Officials on Thursday celebrated completion of a $1.9 million project to pave some 1.5 miles of local roads, and predicted it will help attract more industries and jobs to the area.

“It was so decimated,” state Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, said about the old Army roads used for decades. “The roads were horrible.