With all the condos going up and the questionable saving (or not) of historical buildings, is this something you would rather see on the side of a building downtown? A Moscow suburb decided to experiment with repainting all its drab gray buildings as a Seasonal Affective Disorder antidote.

Now, there aren’t a whole lot of drab gray buildings here. There’s glass, and brick and shiny blue metal and other things. And then there’s Cedar Riverside. But there’s also that one building in Uptown—the alley side of the Rainbow building, I believe [1] [2]—which has got to be one of the most photographed spots in town (at least in Uptown, anyway).

So, would a new-condo-development-sized mural liven up the joint a bit? Or is that asking for trouble? I think that whole complex just north of 94 on the south side of downtown would be the perfect spot. That’s all you would see as you get on the highway from Lyndale.

(via City Comforts)