The Mt. Pleasant Planning commission is waiting for design recommendations for Mission and Pickard Street.
“We are aware it’s showing its age,” Planning Director Tony Kulick told the Planning Commission on Feb. 7.
Kulick gave the update after commissioner Eric Johnson complained that Mission Street is becoming less physically attractive because of empty buildings, including where the Sweet Onion and the Embers used to operate.
“The former Wal-Mart building is now a skeleton,” Johnson said.
Empty buildings will damage the downtown area and the university campus, he said.
Johnson urged putting in new businesses, residential housing or shrubs and flowers.
“Right now I wish we had a better Mission,” he said. “It embarrasses me.”
Chairman Peter Orlik said the Mission Street redevelopment is an important issue and will stay on the agenda as a future goal.
Kulick said he will have the design results for Mission Street and Pickard Street by June or July.
