FURNITURE and home appliance giant, Courts (Guyana) has proposed to do more for the upkeep of the beautiful Main Street Avenue, an area the company has adopted for several years now.

Courts’ Commercial Director Tracy Smith said on Friday last that they are thrilled to be partnering with the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) as they move to revitalise the natural space.

Smith explained that the company met with Town Clerk Royston King this past week to ascertain the Council’s plans for the avenue. For more than five years now, Courts has kept the section of the avenue facing its establishment clean, but found it difficult to maintain, given wanton littering and the lack of garbage receptacles.

In its bid to be a responsible corporation, the company is seeking permission to do more for the avenue by maintaining the space between Quamina Street and North Road.

The commercial director said the Council is very interested in replanting the entire avenue from North Road to Lamaha Street and farther to the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. “We expressed our interest in maintaining the avenue, but we were concerned about the role the Council would play,” Smith stated.

She said the company was assured of Council’s plans to upkeep the area with promises of adequate garbage receptacles, general cleaning of the entire Main Street location and its environs. It was mentioned that City Hall is also working on an artist’s impression of what the avenue should look like when all rehabilitation works are completed. “We are awaiting further word on these plans,” Smith advised.

Courts’ last clean-up of the avenue totalled some $250,000 and would have run into millions given the years the company has kept the avenue.

Town Clerk Royston King expressed gratitude to the furniture giant and urged other companies to be proactive in their corporate responsibilities. “I am hoping that other corporate citizens come on board as part of their social responsibility to help the city of Georgetown, as we move toward a clean and green capital.”

King said the relevant moves are being made to see the early commencement of the Main Street Avenue rehabilitation, as well as its environs.