The ratio of plywood versus glass downtown seems to be tipping in plywood’s favour lately, because of the number of break-ins and smash-and-grabs.
BIA executive director Cory Robin has an alternative. Coroplast is plastic that’s corrugated just like cardboard but is waterproof and colourfast. It’s what election and real estate signs are made of.
Robin says it’s cheap to produce. The expense is in the design you put on it.
“In my role as a BIA guy,” he says, “I can put together the design and then we can work with our partners downtown, because we have a couple of businesses who can make these, to produce them, and cover the plywood with your logo or something like this, while we wait for glass to e replaced.”
And the coroplast sign will live on, once you get new glass in your window or door.
“You can put them elsewhere in your business when you get your nice glass and your frost and everything else back in place,” says Robin. “It’s just really temporary to get rid of the plywood, because nobody wants to see it.”
The coroplast sign can be used to identify your business at an outdoor market, for instance.
