COEUR d'ALENE - Some things stick, some things don't.

And the color on Fourth Street's concrete - the maroon-aesthetic perk part of the Midtown reconstruction project that added spunk to the center section of town - belongs to the group that doesn't.

For the second straight year since the roughly $3 million project was completed, the colored concrete patterns need a touch up.

"We're exploring options," said Jon Ingalls, deputy city attorney, on the possibility that the city of Coeur d'Alene is seeking a permanent solution for the reoccurring problem. "We don't know if it's an application, product or design issue. It's hard to tell."

But the city will be taking a closer look over the next couple of weeks to find out.

Because unlike last year when the peeled-off paint problem first appeared, the project is no longer covered by its one-year warranty, so the contractor won't come in and touch it up.

Not the end of the world, more like a thorn in the side, officials said, but the goal is to end the problem once and for all.

Some business owners, meanwhile, are still pleased with the overall results.

"I mean, did you see the sidewalks before?" said Jeffrey Gagnon, ringing up customers at Paris & Co., on Fourth Street.

Tom Capone, owner of Capone's Pub and Grill, said the reconstruction project on a whole has nearly doubled his business from just a couple years ago.

But the damage was noticeable.

"It's worse than I thought," he said, checking out the chips outside his pub patio. "The intention was good but maybe they should just do it (again) and get it over with."

Safco Excavating and Construction worked as a lead on the project. The sub-contractor that performed the concrete coloring was C4 Concrete, and the product used for the coloring was H & C Concrete Sealer, according to C4 Concrete.

A representative from the company, who did not want his name printed, said the product was applied as directed.

The company had never used the product on such a large-scale project, the representative said, but would work with the city to correct the problem.

"Yeah, it's disappointing," said Tony Berns, director of Lake City Development Corp. the urban renewal agency that poured years and nearly $2 million into the project's planning. "You pay for something and it didn't work."