Below is the Commercial Building (pre-recent-permanent-dull-primer-paint job) at the corner of bank and Elm, as seen in November, 2011. These days, the Stylin' Irish salon occupies space in the middle, and Dragon King's Daughter apparently is about to open on the Elm Street side.
Unfortunately, the artist's depiction at top is a vision, only. Mike says, "I wasn't able to convince them of that look but some changes beside the paint and removal of the grids are on the way."
Verily, perhaps anything's better than the way it was before, as it means the owner is doing something. You look at the building and those two parking lots, and you think: What could be, with a little imagination and some money. Unfortunately, the city's bicentennial-year curse is that we possess even less of the former than the latter.
2 comments:
The glass on the side could be a nice addition but the front facade is better as is. What does "removal of the grids" mean?
I don't know. The glass idea is Steve Resch's, if memory serves. The bad part of the front at present is some sort of "bubbling" in the material below the windows. Maybe they're seams of some sort.
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