vision2020@moscow.com: Re: reclaiming the strip -Reply
Re: reclaiming the strip -Reply
Fritz Knorr (fritzk@moscow.com)
Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:53:30 -0800
>** Proprietary **
>
>(Arendt mentioned Rosauers on North Main, which has remodled twice in
>the last 10 years without being required to make any improvements in its
>parking lot. Even a series of street trees along Main and D would provide
>some visual continuity with the rest of downtown.)
>--Kenton
>
>
>or tristate/deranleaus ( a local merchant ) which completely rebuilt their
>parking with out the addition of landscape or street trees..... or the new
>"rennaisance" mall with a couple token trees..... or shucks/bp which tore
>out their entire front area and replaced it with a couple 1 gallon "juniperus
>buttugliness" shrubs.... or sylvesters which moved into jeffs' foods
>without landscape or street trees..... or the university inn which would
>like to remove all of their trees.... or the mall merchants who would like to
>remove all of the trees in their landscape strip, or.....
Or the Moscow Food Coop which has installed bike parking and an outdoor
table in their parking lot, which serves to extend the pedestrian zone of
the sidewalk, landscaped the planting strip along Almon with a fantastic
xeriscaped garden, and removed (as in cut down with a torch) the Kentucky
Fried sign from the corner etc., etc.
There is a fantastic example of a business doing the right thing and doing
well right here in town. Too bad it's so scary to talk about the Coop. (BOO!)
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