Medina Planning Board approves sign for Triennial, work on Main St. building

Images submitted to Village of Medina Planning Board: The Medina Triennial will affix artwork on the Medina Theater as part of the upcoming Medina Triennial art initiative. The Planning Board approved the sign during its meeting on Tuesday.

MEDINA – The Village of Medina Planning Board has approved a temporary sign for the Medina Triennial and also a certificate of appropriateness for exterior work at 339 North Main St.

The sign will be 20 by 22 feet and will be a temporary display of artwork. It will be attached on the side of the Medina Theater at 601 Main St., near the back of the building facing Proile Alley.

Medina Triennial organizers expect to put the sign up in late May before the start of the Triennial on June 6. The arts initiative brings 35 works of art from artists around the world. The triennial runs until Sept. 7.

The Planning Board approved the sign until the end of September. The sign will be printed on a vinyl material and fastened on the building “in the least invasive way possible,” said Matt Hollenback, head producer for the Triennial.

Mark and Michael Zambito are seeking to put in new, larger windows at 339 North Main St., a site that was recently used by Patriot Guns and Mystic Dragon’s Lair.

The smaller windows will be replaced with bigger ones that will be either vinyl or aluminum that will have black frames.

The white coverings above the windows will be painted black. The Zambitos said there is missing and deteriorating bricks near the doors that they would like to wrap in a matte finish to prevent further damage to the bricks.

They said repointing the bricks and matching them with the existing ones could be difficult. Planning Board members said there may be usable bricks that match once the smaller windows are replaced with larger.

They encouraged the Zambito brothers to try to repair the brick work as part of the project.

The Zambitos said the work on the building in phase one of what they plan to be bigger improvements at the site.