By Barry Owens
It is a two-mile stretch of road from Oliver to Washington streets on Douglas Avenue. Not all of it is pleasant.
To walk from College Hill to Old Town is to depart from a leafy village and arrive in a brick city of charming warehouses converted to restaurants, nightclubs and lofts. But one must first journey past blighted buildings, through poorly lit areas and over a few rough patches of sidewalk to get there—with hardly a bench in site.
That a business association has formed with the goal, in part, to beautify the distance between the two locations should interest anyone who has taken the stroll, lives in the area, or does business along the corridor.
The Douglas Design District Association, an association formed in January with the aim to re-style and re-brand the corridor as a design district, will present their initial concepts for the avenue to the city planning department this month. Continue reading
