As part of its signage and wayfinding design project, the Downtown Lakewood Design Sub-committee is seeking community input on the color selection for street signs in the district.Four sign blanks, each a different color, have been posted on poles in the 14700 block of Detroit Avenue. The blanks are posted about 10 feet high; two colors are displayed in front of Geiger’s Clothing & Sports, the other two in front of The Melt Bar & Grilled.
Community input on the colors can be submitted through a survey located on the LakewoodAlive website: www.lakewoodalive.com
Dru Siley, Assistant Planning Director for the City of Lakewood, and a member of the resident-based sub-committee remarked, “Since residents and downtown workers will live daily with the finished product, we think it is only appropriate to get their input on the final selection.”
Sub-committee Chair, Sean McDermott added, “The historic color palette approved by the committee reflects the community’s expressed desire for traditional elements in the design.”
The signage design project is funded by a grant award to LakewoodAlive from Heritage Ohio matched by the City of Lakewood, and is an outgrowth of the community-based Detroit Avenue Streetscape Plan funded by a grant award from NOACA and adopted by City Council in December of 2008.
Downtown Lakewood is a LakewoodAlive program to revitalize Lakewood’s primary commercial district using the National Main Street Four-Point Approach™.
LakewoodAlive is a nonprofit economic development organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of residents by creating alliances with community leaders, leveraging community assets and expanding the pool of available resources to facilitate economic stability and growth in Lakewood, Ohio.
