I make $30k and live alone comfortably in my own home, BUT I was very blessed to be able to buy a foreclosure in Jan 2020 for $92k. If you can save up a down payment you should be able to afford a house, but with current rent in the area you would have to be frugal, and it all depends on how the market goes. I have two cousins in single income households and both have managed to buy houses in the last year with kids, and another single cousin below $50k who bought a house, but all purchased outside of Springfield.

None of the new lots have been sold/leased yet, but it looks like Michael's is probably the addition on the end of the existing strip.

https://sgfcitizen.org/springfield-culture/steve-pokin-columns/answer-man-whats-going-in-at-west-sunshine-and-west-bypass/

A lot of large companies get the road named after them. If it's their money going to improve the road it's similar to when people donate money to a college to get their name on a building. They are a gas station, but it's not like a kum & go where they would have multiple locations in a smaller area. Other gas stations are like Walmart- it's important that the address actually tells you it's location without having to look up which one it is, but since Buc-ees is more of an attraction for people driving by that doesn't matter. If you look up Ikea locations you'll find a large number of them are located on a street named Ikea.