Brought to you by Unknown Mami
who has a GINORMOUS heart
seriously, she does
This is at the other end of Main St
It's an old hat factory
Back in the day, this was the largest
hat manufacturer
in the country
or something like that
there's ongoing debate
as to whether this building
should be renovated
into luxury condos
for now it displays banners
created by local artists
it's pretty awesome
and one of the many things
that makes me love our town
Happy Valentine's Day
Big Puffy Hearts to you all...
This lifted my heart (more than just a little). I hope this is not converted into luxury condos.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the bit of sunlight. :)
Happy Valentine's Day!
Well, if it was converted to luxury condos, it would be a cool place to live.
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's, Michelle. Sending sweet velvet love hearts your way.
That is really cool!
ReplyDeleteIt's terrific! I'll bet a lot of people look forward to driving/riding past this every day.
ReplyDeleteI kinda hope they don't make condos out of that..it's beautiful the way it is with all the banners!
ReplyDeletelove the artwork and i love old factories,
ReplyDeletehere you'll see why
http://itsnotcalledadreamhousefornothing.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-dads-factory.html
personally i think if they renovate it it will be good anyway!
Love that. I need a "You are Beautiful" banner for my less-than-awesome days.
ReplyDeleteI love poster art, and those are fantastic. A great puffy heart back at you!
ReplyDeleteYou are right-- The art is awesome and so gorgeous on the building. I wish more cities did things like this-- Imagine how much more appealing areas could be with MORE art! Love it.
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's Day. Thanks for sharing your city.
jj
Oh my word. I just love this! So great. So much character. And you know what else I loved? Reading that I was beautiful today.
ReplyDeleteYou are beautiful too! What a great thing to remember!
Oh, this is divine. Love the banners. Thanks for sharing. Happy Valentine's to you too. Hope you got lots of crayon hearts!
ReplyDeleteWould they ever think about affordable housing where maybe artists could live there, one that is interesting and dynamic, and may, just may enhance the community instead of destroying buildings and creating yet another gentrified area while this one has a beautiful aura of art and beautification already? Sorry, it pains me when old, beautiful and meaningful buildings that helped created a community in the past are simply discarded. Or is it me the only one who looks at the world this way?
ReplyDeleteThere are so many beautiful places everywhere around the US. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThat would be so sad to convert it into luxury condos as then only rich folk could live there and this old building would be torn down. That would not be cool at all!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures of the building. They are awesome! I like old buildings though, because they show so much more character.
ReplyDeleteToo bad they don't convert it to an art museum.
Someone must have thought about putting all the wonderful banners. It is lovely to see and read but I think it is temporary. If they could just renovate the building into a condo that would be awesome. It'll be a worthwhile conservation.
ReplyDeleteThe banners are cool partly because they wouldn't have to be destroyed if they did rennovate the place. I don't know what side of the debate you are on (pro-banner?), but I hate to see empty buildings.
ReplyDeleteThat building is the shit, man.
ReplyDeleteLove, SB
By the way, like the sign says, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!
ReplyDeleteLove that building. Hope they don't ruin it by turning it into condos.
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