It's hard to miss the vacant shops on the main street.
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The condition of some of the frontages of these stores is not appealing with old shop signs plastered on them.
A proposal by Goulburn based photographer Tina Milson could help address the problem by making the empty stores and the main street look attractive to the visitors.
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She has worked on the Art of Ageing 2020 exhibition which showcases members of the Goulburn community.
The exhibition celebrates the contribution of people over 50 years to their communities.
In a bid to make these shops on the main street look attractive, she has suggested that her photographs from the exhibition can be displayed in the empty shops.
The journey of these people will also be narrated along with the portrait in the storefronts.
A discussion with the business community is expected to take place next week where she will present her proposal before the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce.
Mark Bradbury, president of Goulburn Chamber of Commerce, feels that the proposal "may give the main street a lift".
"It will help businesses in a positive way. The empty shops will have a more appealing front," he said.
Discussions on making the empty shops look attractive to the visitors have taken place time and again.
During a Goulburn Region Innovation Network (GRIN) forum in 2019, Brigid Kennedy from Moss Vale Chamber of Commerce spoke about the initiative taken by them to draw businesses and consumers into the town's CBD.
It involved offering local boutique businesses a rent-free shopfront for a 30-day rolling lease period.
The forum included discussions on how empty shops could be used and re-purposed and calls for greater support of businesses.
Darrell Weekes from the Purple Thread Marketing gave an example of how former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fixed the broken windows and how it changed people's perceptions that it was a much safer area.
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