Downtown Anchorage is seeing a spike in graffiti vandalism.
“A little piece of me gets hurts,” said Marc Murray, a maintenance ambassador for the Anchorage Downtown Partnership. ”You know, it’s a little piece of our city crumbling.”“The Whaling Wall was tagged last week. Balto was tagged yesterday,” Murray said. “The parks have been hit almost daily.”
Before this summer, the partnership would receive a call once a week regarding graffiti, but now it gets around two calls a day.From spray paint to permanent market to latex paint, the partnership has seen it all when responding to calls. Each graffiti piece can take them about a day or two to respond to. The clean-up process time depends, Murray said, on the surface the graffiti was found on and the necessary clean-up process.
Anyone caught doing graffiti will need to remove it and pay damages. They could also face fines of up to $100.
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