By gabe.radke on Skatehive
When the unofficial street art park / cafe was closed and fenced off to the public for reasons that were never explained it made me kind of mad. The people who were doing the pieces there were seriously talented and both artists and regular people would flock to this place, spend a few dollars on the coffee and sit in the shade to watch someone do a craft that not many people know about. Then, for reasons that nobody ever explained, a fence was put up around the unused land the the makeshift lean-to coffee stand was torn down. The land remains unused to this day and they weren't hurting anyone. If anything they were preventing vandalism elsewhere because every now and then the person who would run the coffee shop would paint over the older ones to make room for new people to try it. Therefore, I started to notice a big downturn in the amount of vandalism that was happening elsewhere because the street artists could not take their time and didn't have to worry about getting busted. But