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ALONG SCHAER’S WAY Businessman lands state preservation award for Montana Avenue transformation

September 24, 2012 /

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When Mike Schaer moved his small Computers Unlimited staff to Montana Avenue in 1983, derelicts and prostitutes ranged free and hundreds of pigeons made homes in the roofless historic buildings. Some of Schaer’s friends thought he was, well, a bit daft.

But Schaer had never wavered from his dream that Montana Avenue could become a lively, cosmopolitan street like the Michigan Avenue he frequented during his boyhood in Chicago.

As for folks ready to call him crazy along the way …

"I never let them get that far," Schaer said with his boyish grin.

By Jan Falstad

Full Story: http://billingsgazette.com/business/businessman-lands-state-preservation-award-for-montana-avenue-transformation/article_4a6a7937-51e1-5906-a8f6-b7c7bb3e9a35.html

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