King Street’s many boarded-up storefronts have become magnets for crude messages scrawled in marker.
Paul Daeres is the owner of the former Pascal and Emerson’s building, which has become a popular hangout for a motley variety of people. He tells CHSJ News the look of the uptown is going downhill, with an abundance of abandoned buildings and shady bars.
Daeres says it’s easy to see why there’s petty crime like graffiti, but he doesn’t see what he can do about it. He claims whenever he tries to clean it up, the culprits come back immediately and do it again.
