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Meet the Capital Region man who bought Exit 19

July 6, 2026

Gary Lewis — “I was having a good time being retired, but Gayle and I kept seeing this intersection where there was nothing but trees and a ballpark that was pretty well abandoned. I thought, ‘Hey, I’ll try to buy this intersection.’” - Garry Lewis, developer, on the decision to acquire land surrounding the Satsuma exit in Livingston Parish (Photo by Don Kadair)

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Just south of the Interstate 12 exit at Satsuma, an F4 Phantom U.S. Navy jet sits near a turnoff for a row of recently built brick townhouses. Drive past them and you’ll come to a 30-foot-by-50-foot American flag, and—almost completely camouflaged by dense stands of native pine trees—the entrance to the new Patriots RV Resort.

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