Private Businesses Also Contribute to Trashy Look of 5th Ave., North

While the State of Tennessee seems lax about 5th Ave., North upkeep, private businesses like Strickland's Supreme Salads® seem to have their own problems keeping their plots neat. While I have found Strickland's® products somewhat palatable, the next time I go to the store and eye their cole slaw, I'm only going to think of tall dead grass and get irritable.

Besides the high, uncut scrub and grass, the picture below shows unstored building materials or junk or debris. Does that violate Metro codes? Also, outside of the picture frame the ground around the fence is just as trashy as that of the state property farther south.

Strickland Supreme Salads® property at the corner of 5th Ave., North and Jackson near state employee parking. Photograph by S-townMike.