It has been over six years since the Kalona Bakery building caught fire. I walk by that building every workday and it is still in sad shape. The screen door is partially open, and store hours are …
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It has been over six years since the Kalona Bakery building caught fire. I walk by that building every workday and it is still in sad shape. The screen door is partially open, and store hours are still in the window as is the sign “Kalona Bakery”. The windows haven’t been cleaned for six years. It is a real eye sore for the downtown.
The City of Kalona has been working hard to try to find a tenant for the building for many years. If anyone else owned the building, the City would be writing a letter of nuisance to the owner asking to clean it up. And most property owners trying to market a building would clean it up to make it look attractive. There is black plastic over windows so you can’t see the mess inside.
It would be appropriate for the city to fix the screen door, scrape the name off the window and take the hours of business out of the window.
Better yet, the city should ask either Mid-Prairie or Hillcrest Academy art students to paint an attractive mural on the front windows.
We have to compliment the City Council on their current sidewalk improvement program. The new sidewalk along the northside of D Avenue from 6th Street to 9th Street is a great improvement, as are the other sidewalks in the program.
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