A.M. Briefing: Midtown makeover
By TOM HASSLINGER
Made-over Midtown needs a touch up.
Concrete coloring on sections of sidewalk didn’t set properly during
last summer’s construction process, and has since peeled off, leaving
patches of bland, gray concrete where bright color should be.
“It’s nothing too major,” said Craig Firkins, Safco Construction
president. “We’ll make it look good again.”
The roughly $3 million makeover took up the whole summer last year.
But weather at the time was wet and cool, and the coloring stain
didn’t set properly in the less than ideal conditions.
The coloring has eroded on several blocks worth of sidewalk along
Fourth Street north of Roosevelt Avenue, prompting crews to come back
in sometime this summer to finish off the project for good.
Safco Construction contracted out the artistic work. Firkins said the
touch-up would be a quick process, but didn’t have details of the
timeline.
“Hopefully the weather will start to cooperate with us,” he said.