Please fix the ugliest storefront on Chapel St.
AT&T is opening a retail store at 936 Chapel St., where the old tattoo shop used to be. This is probably the ugliest storefront in all of downtown -- completely covered in black styrofoam. The building owner has not been motivated to improve their building, but perhaps AT&T can be persuaded that they owe it to New Haven to make their business look halfway decent. I've already written their "corporate citizenship" PR representative, requesting that they at least remove the dryvit. I would also like to see that their signage, when installed, is of appropriate quality and scale. (The tattoo shop had a plastic sign about five feet tall.) Is there any local approvals process that has guidelines for signage?
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Congrats on the great news coverage, SCF and NH Indy!
Words fail to describe how psyched I am that my name is in an English newspaper.
This issue was just mentioned in a story by the English newspaper The Guardian!
Check it out here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jun/01/crowdsourcing-internet
So, Edible Arrangements has officially moved in! While the exterior for both the tasty store and the AT&T store is absolutely disgusting - it totally deceives the interiors. The AT&T store is pretty nice on the inside, standard modern classy phone store. And the Edible Arrangements - I really suggest for people to stop by sometime! The interior is fixed up really nice, big flatscreen tvs with the menus on them.. and the Frutation drinks - absolutely delicious!!
Yes please.
I'm happy to report that the AT&T storefront now looks ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL compared to the Edible Arrangements right next to it :D
I was just speaking with Mr. Persano about the issue. He told me that he plans to get the front re-done, but he is just waiting to see what Edible Arrangements will be doing to their front just to be sure he doesn't screw up and make things worst
please fix this! the building should be taken over by the city if the landlords keep sitting on it like this.
Yes, it is true that Edible Arrangements is opening a store here, according to their website. According to CareerBuilder, you can apply for a job now. I'm sure that the company will not allow for their store location to look like a dumpster, so hopefully it will be fixed up!
The store front will not be staying that way. From what I hear Edible arrangements is moving next store, and the front is getting a facelift.
So AT&T is open, and I agree with Juli that it won't be there for long! Seriously shabby shop job. It seems however to be taking only one half of the ugly black storefront, and plywood + door are still sloppily covering the other half. Has anyone heard what the plan is for that portion? The whole thing is just embarrassing for such a high-traffic and otherwise nice area! I wonder how neighboring Zinc feels as it tries to attract higher paying customers...