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Garland rolls out window art, traffic cabinet wraps and pole banners to enliven downtown
Summary
City staff described efforts to beautify Downtown Garland including temporary window chalk art on vacant storefronts, a traffic cabinet-wrapping program prioritized for downtown, mapping of 150 banner-capable poles and the city's first downtown billboard placement.
Nancy Tennell told the board the downtown development office piloted temporary window chalk on vacant storefronts this spring—10 window installations that were on display from mid-March through June 1—and that the city plans to replicate the effort. She also described a traffic cabinet-wrapping program slated for multiple phases; downtown will receive priority in the first phase with 14 cabinets identified.
Nancy said staff mapped roughly 150 poles that can display banners and described the first billboard promoting Downtown Garland at Garland Road and 16th Street; she asked the board to expect ongoing roll-out of pole banners in September–October and noted a goal of prioritizing Garland-based artists for cabinet wraps.
