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Art Gives Vacant Storefronts New Life

Comic book characters fill the windows at 811 Prospect Avenue...an otherwise vacant building.
Comic book characters fill the windows at 811 Prospect Avenue...an otherwise vacant building.

Across the country, about 18% of commercial office space is going unused and nationally, more than $48 billion worth of office buildings are in default, bankruptcy or foreclosure. Still, there are signs of new life in some parts of the office building market and some new efforts to beautify the street level view of mostly empty buildings. ideastream's Eric Wellman spoke with Robert Carillio and Joan Smith of Cleveland Storefront Art.