“The city bent over backwards to make this season happen,” says Branden Huldeen, Barrington Stage’s artistic producer and director of new works. Not everyone has criticisms to direct to the present administration. She is walking past a vacant storefront at the corner of Fenn Street before coming upon a prime example of what downtown has going for it: Barrington Stage Company, whose shows this summer have been sold out. Mayor Linda Tyer is optimistic about the changing retail landscape on North Street. Turn left, toward the restored commercial space where a cheerful Brooklyn couple hopes to open a brewery next spring, or right, in the direction of a florist whose owners recently posted a photo of their vandalized window splattered with raw egg and who declared they will leave this city because conditions have “gotten worse and worse.” PITTSFIELD - The mayor of this city steps out from City Hall on a hot weekday morning to do the thing she has been accused of not doing: walking the streets of downtown and speaking to the problems that have reached a crescendo among business owners.Ĭutting crosswise through the Dunham Mall pedestrian side street to North Street, she has a choice. “I don’t want to be a thorn in anyone’s side, but we’re fighting for our livelihood," one merchant says.
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