Boarded up storefronts have become a common sight across America as businesses endure the devastating effects of novel coronavirus and looters.
But one San Francisco group called Paint The Void is using its talents to help brighten the landscape. They find an artist to turn plywood into a canvas. Learn more.
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Murals breathe new positivity into vandalized downtown storefronts | WANE
“It doesn’t look super inviting when all the windows are boarded up,” said Jeremy Stroup. “It looks pretty spooky, to tell you the truth.”
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“I was walking around downtown last Saturday after the vandalism happened,” said Garland. “Looking around, this is a bunch of canvas we can paint to create messages of justice and hope.”
Garland reached out to Art This Way to turn his idea into action. With their help, a call went out asking for artists to come downtown and cover the plywood with their messages of hope and shift the focus from the negatives of the vandalism to the positivity of the message.
Many businesses along East State Street board up storefronts and close early before protest
ROCKFORD, Il. (WIFR) -- Many businesses along East State Street close early or board up their storefronts before Thursday's protest.
Anderson Nissan barricaded entrances, cleared all cars off of its parking lot and lined several along the perimeter of the dealership's windows.
'We didn't come to this part of the city to create any kind of commotion or chaos or anything like that we came to this side of the city to disrupt the city and let it be known that it wasn't just one area that was going to hear about this it needed to be the entire city to hear about this," said Rockford Youth Activism Spokesperson Leslie Rolfe.
Downtown Holland sees transitions, closings and delays in first half of 2020 - Business - Ionia
HOLLAND — Over the past six months, a number of businesses in downtown Holland have tackled ownership transitions, opening delays and closures.
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On Monday, Feb. 3, Holland Clock Co. closed up shop at 21 E. Eighth St. as construction to renovate the building and adjacent building began.
Development will result in the creation of five two-story apartments with commercial space on the ground floors. The construction process will involve the demolition of part of the back of the building and the removal of the roof structure.
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Boston Board Up has been meeting the demands of businesses trying to protect storefronts - The
For Falzarano, a retired firefighter who has spent decades in the construction industry, it's led to near-constant calls for reinforcements; mini wooden fortresses and protective sheets of plywood going up over storefronts and window panes, mostly as a preemptive measure.
"[Tuesday] night was the first time I was in bed before 1 a.m.," he said in a phone interview this week. "The rate of the calls all at once is um — it's a little bit different."
Chicago artists get creative with boarded-up storefronts - Chicago Tribune
JC Rivera thought about hurricanes, he thought about his childhood in Puerto Rico and what happened whenever a storm passed through. Plywood would fly up across every window and every store front. He thought about this the other day, while driving through Chicago, passing business after business hidden behind a blank landscape of paneling.
Rivera is an artist, known for his gold, sleepy-eyed bear in boxing gloves, a ubiquitous bit of street art across Chicago, seen on the sides of buildings and vans, pizza boxes and skateboards.
New Yorkers are turning boarded up storefronts into works of art
Business owners across New York City are using plywood and gates to protect their storefronts, but artists, activists and residents are using these blockades to spread messages of support through art and text.
Perhaps you've seen Sara Erenthal's lone female figures commenting on displacement, survival and liberation across the city or the 20,000-square-foot ground mural covering an entire parking lot in Queens . Street art , popping up on walls, posters and even curbside trash often reflects the times, especially now.
Fayetteville businesses deal with damage as they struggle to rebound from coronavirus - News -
Brick pavers were used to damage the storefronts of 25 downtown Fayetteville businesses last Saturday night.
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City officials say the people who took advantage of the protests last weekend in Fayetteville caused this damage and more, creating additional challenges to businesses that were just starting to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and its shutdown orders.
Some downtown business owners and residents said their calls to 911 last Saturday night, as well as pleas to police officers who were in the downtown area, were ignored for several hours after a fire was started at the Market House about 7 p.m. After that, protesters marched down Hay Street, and some people in the crowd hurled pavers into windows and tried to light another fire that didn’t ignite.
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