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Madison Avenue Makeover

Madison Avenue, once a quaint and cozy strip of unique storefronts, filled with local businesses serving thriving neighborhoods and providing all the goods and services  it's residents needed. Now mostly vacant, painted the ugliest colors, pink, electric blue and drab dirty brown, many with the windows bricked over.  Did someone have left over paint from the 70's? 

There is no connection, no rhyme or reason for the dreary painted facades.    I realize how hard it is to start up a small business, much less having to renovate a storefront, prospective tenants can't see beyond the colors.   

With the resurfacing and new street design enhancements coming this summer, it's time to focus on the Madison Avenue district storefronts.  

I'm calling out to architect, design and Virgina Marti students to select a property, photograph it and prepare a rendering of what it could look like with new imagination and vision.  The shoppes of Madison could resemble " Medina Square" or "Tremont's Lincoln Park neighborhood", paint, trim & molding can transform the neighborhood.  Is this just my thought? Should I mind my own business? Wait,  this is my business, I have an attractive building & storefront on Madison.

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