Peeve O' The Day: December 9, 2011
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 3:26pm | by blindeke
Doors that aren't really doors
A non-entrace to the Westin Hotel in Downtown Minneapolis on Marquette Avenue.
As businessess have expanded to occupy the footprint of multiple older establishments, some entrances and doorways get left behind in the wayside. Walking down certain of these 'megablock' streets in downtown Minneapolis, paticularly around Marquette and 2nd Avenues, you find a few entrances that aren't in use.
It's frustrating that so much of the street frontage downtown lacks vitality and pedestrian traffic. Fake doorways are one of the consequences.
Comments
Macy's
I was standing around waiting for a bus on 8th St & Nicollet Ave earlier this week and realized the entire side of the Macy's building use to be open on the street, but now it's a few window displays and blacked out doors and windows. Lame. How awesome would it look with flags flying from the flagpoles and a bunch of windows and doors showing you inside.
It's unfortunate that more
It's unfortunate that more businesses don't realize the marketing (and/or sales / advertising potential) of these doorways / windowed areas. Ideally, it would be a door. However, if an entrance does need to be blocked, something that is interesting to walk by would be a plus. That seems like a good starting point for downtown MPLS.