ABSTRACT
A Business Improvement Association has taken on the responsibility for picking up loose trash, night time security, and the installation of wall art. The huge leaping whale near University Street is part of a large, multi-paneled piece that wraps around the corner of an otherwise ordinary building. The right-of-way is narrower than other downtown streets. Combined with wide sidewalks, parked cars, occasional street trees, and two relatively narrow traffic lanes, it produces a very pleasant, almost intimate, urban corridor. Streets like Western Avenue sing with the life of the city. The place is as intriguing at 12 midnight as it is at 12 noon. Western probably will never be called a really "great" street. The Millionaire's Club always has, at the ready, a cadre of out of-work laborers eagerly awaiting their early morning pick up by customers. There is even a couple of children's play areas tucked onto the rooftops above the street.
