Downtown Middletown - Our Worst Looking Block?

I say the west side of S Main:
Ligon's-Sonshine-Manchester lot-hydraulic-Hope House-Rose-Historical building-Sorg Opera complex-empty lots
Plus the smell

The brightly colored storefronts are not bad to look at and are hardly noticed..........if you were in Nogales Mexico.

This area and Spider's suggested area down around Main St. are certainly nothing to be proud of as to appearance.....but then again, the whole town has taken on a rather "worn, ragged" look the last decade or two. The town in general certainly hasn't been taken care of as in the past. The caring and pride are gone in many areas. Sad.

Spider...

"My street is terrible, with moderate traffic.
Most of us have considerable frontage, so no way that a majority votes to pay for road improvements.
Young to middle-aged neighborhood-- lot of walkers who seldom cross the street.

With the paving a mess, the city is ripping up all of the corners, re-doing them to be handicap-accessible.
Why?
What happens if the street is ever re-paved?"

I BELIEVE I WILL ASK THE CITY NOT TO REPAVE MY STREET BUT RATHER TO SEND A LARGE TANK AND SPRAYER CONTAINING ROUNDUP TO KILL THE GRASS POPPING UP THROUGH THE BLACKTOP.   



WILL IMPROVE THE LOOK OF THE STREET AT A FRACTION OF THE COST OF REPAVING.

SPEAKING OF HANDICAPPED....IF IT WEREN'T FOR SIDEWALKS AND WE HAD TO RELY ON STREET TRAVEL ONLY, I MAY NOT SEE HER AGAIN WHEN SHE DISAPPEARS IN ONE OF THE POTHOLES. SO, WE HAVE THE STREETS THAT ARE GOING TO GRAVEL AND SOME CITY CLOWN MADE THE DECISION TO ONLY WORK ON THE CORNERS AND NOT ATTACK THE REAL PROBLEM? SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT FOR THE FOLKS CALLING THE SHOTS HERE.

Similar to the brightly painted buildings, but far worse than shown in this photo

they are getting it ready for all the illegal immigrants that's the new plan to fix this city/country , just legalize them all and no more problems with illegals makes sense, any way its perfect I can almost see the taco carts on the sidewalks now.