Restored Coca-Cola mural brightens ambience in downtown's Pillsbury Park

Restored Coca-Cola mural brightens ambience in downtown's Pillsbury Park

GRAND FORKS – Chad Caya and Casey Opstad have restored a barely-visible Coca-Cola mural that overlooks Pillsbury Park, a “pocket park” on Kittson Avenue, east of the Urban Stampede coffee shop. The refurbished, 60-by-20-foot mural on the Odd Fellows Block Apartments building matches the design of the original image. The project took about two weeks to complete. At first, although the mural was very faint, “you could tell where it was,” Opstad sa…