been pretty much out of commission all week. I finally feel okay today.
Anyways, when I walked by I noticed the fairwest building at the
corner of allen and north pearl is boarded up. That now makes a whole
block that is out of commision. Plus friends across the street. I
wonder what happened to fairwest? I hope they knock it all down and
start over. The last building connected with all the junk in the
window smells so bad in the warm weather. I called the police once
when like 10,000,000 flies were inside. I figures it meant something
was dead inside. Then someone else broke the window.
It looks so freakin ghetto now.
I think the problems with the Ellicott district lie with the store owners.
I once had a series of conversations with the owner of a store who is quite active. This was around the time when Pano's wanted to tear down that house for a fuckin' parking lot; and some big-box store wanted to move into a building near Utica(?). Anyways: this guy was all about bringing such big stores in there. He was all for tearing down the old houses and putting up Walmarts and KMarts.
The problem is: there _are_ enough of those around. The future of Ellicott district lies in specialty stores, upscale restaurants, etc. (and less bars). As a matter of fact, it is good that people have to park at a distance and walk; then they're walking by lots of other stores and make impulse buys.
And when I first noticed that building was boarded up I had a rare "I need to get out of this town" moment. If a whole block of Allen can be boarded up, what hope is there for the rest of the city? But, I am sure with some better leadership for the Ellicot district and in the mayor's office that part of Allen can turn around.
In that store window are two martini glasses with clear gelatin inside, as to give the illusion of a full cocktail at all times. The combination of libations and horrible ass hole of hell stank makes me want to throw up. When I walk past it I have to hold my breath. There is no rehabilitating that building.
OH I see. I just figured out which building this is. Slow me. It was a storefront with all sort of random old stuff, then they just took everything off the windows and heaped it up on the floor and threw other random stuff on top. It was really bizarre -- almost as if they were building a funeral pyre for someone murdered underneath. All the makings of a morbid Edgar Allan Poe- Peter Wimsy mystery.
LOL @ (e:libertad), good idea though. :D Make a sort of hippie we love life statement.
We should go and paint some rainbows on it and make it pretty.