Fixing Facades News Today

-Messenger photo by Chad Thompson The yellow panels around the entrance to Harty’s Caddy Shack Cafe, 1101 Central Ave., will be replaced with windows as part of a downtown facade improvement project paid for in part with a $500,000 grant from the Iowa Economic Development Authority. In a section of downtown Fort Dodge, workers scrambled over scaffolding for most of last summer and fall, working to restore the facades of several buildings. While the grandeur of some of those old buildings is ...