No Banners for Kent State Hotel
Architecture board signs off on comprehensive sign plan for new downtown building
A sign plan for the new Kent State University Hotel was called "mundane" Tuesday by one member of the Kent Architectural Review Board, which issued the plan a certificate of appropriateness despite such criticisms. Glen Dreyer, chairman of the architectural review board, criticized the sign plan presented to the board by the construction firm managing the project and the sign company that will build the signs. Karen Durepo, of The Pizzuti Companies, the construction management firm, and Lou Belknap, of Agile Sign and Lighting Company, the firm designing the signs, presented a comprehensive sign plan to the architecture board different from signs depicted in an early architectural rendering of the building. An initial rendering of the hotel…
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9:33 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
Also, 'looking like it came out of the thirties', and 'antiquated' are the speak of someone who sounds like they want to move to Dubai where everything is ultra modern. No thank you. Keep it nicely flowing red brick. No shiny sky scrapers and neon flashing signs in my town! more ›