Downtown Kalamazoo

1. Downtown Kalamazoo is very outdated. The atmosphere is very quiet and clean. The road have brick pavers. The street looks shabby and the roads are narrow. Past the Radisson hotel the design is different. There are no road traffic and no roads for cars. The gallery benches arranged in square surrounded by trees. The benches are facing the restaurants. I like the location of Downtown Kalamazoo, it is in the safe central area. However, I dislike the lack of varieties in the store. The stores are marketed to middle class age people.

Some appealing stores I found are climb kzoo, and gift shop. Some unappealing stores I found are uninviting Botiques, and resturants. I dislike the strong mismatch of retailors. The library, church, Radisson Hotel, banks, theatre and museums attract people to the area.

Stores around the area are galleries, tailoring, retail, coffee, optical, and unappealing vacancy. There is a Burnharm and Flower Financial building that has a glass wall that reflects all the stores across from it, it is a attraction. Also the route brings people to the kalamazoo airport.

2.

• Since there are so many vacancy, government should loan stores to open more retail stores for the college students. Book stores, popular retail clothing store, and cafes should be built in the kalamazoo mall because there are the Kalamazoo college and WMU students.
• Put more signs in Burdicks Street. I had to ask a woman where Bucdicks street was, when I was on the street already. There are not enough street signs.
• Do not place restaurants next to clothing stores. I saw many restaurants and clothing located next to each other.

3. "Clothing stores, for example, should never be located next to restaurants. For some reason, the smell of food hurts clothing sales."-Robert Gibbs

It relates because Kalamazoo Downtown have restaurants and retail stores mix together. They should separate the stores and restaurants, it is one of the basic rules.