Opinion: Too many parking lots, too little imagination

“Acme #26, built in 1920, was originally an Art Deco masterpiece. Unfortunately the front of the building was later remodeled.” Photo: Portage County Historical Society

Opinion: Too many parking lots, too little imagination

- Ben Wolford

There’s no way around it: The building at 218 W. Main St. in Ravenna is ugly.

It looks like somewhere you’d go to buy stamps or file for unemployment. The facade is unremarkable except that it is crumbling. Concrete tiles have fallen off its monolithic face, and the paint is chipping off the pillars, as though the building itself is trying to shed an architect’s mistake.

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