Formally, it’s known as the empty building at 30 West Main.

On the street, however, the old Liquidation Outlet south of Auburn City Hall has garnered a rather blunt adjective — uuggllyy.

Not only has the building itself seen better days, detractors say, but last year’s razing of the adjacent Charlie Wong building left the east wall of the Liquidation Outlet plastered with eye-grieving bits of the long-shuttered, burned-out bar.

None of which has escaped the attention of the downtown business community. Last week, the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to the building’s owner, The Bank of Washington in Lynnwood, pleading with the bankers to be good neighbors and do something about the eyesore, for Pete’s sake.

In the letter, co signed by Michele Oosterink, Chamber board chair, and Nancy Wyatt, Chamber president and COO, the organization described how its mission of “building a strong economy” and “promoting the community,” isn’t exactly helped by “the state of disrepair and unsightliness” on display at 30 West Main.

To paraphrase the letter, the building fails to accessorize with the street improvements, infrastructure upgrades, sidewalk improvements and other fix-ups now under way to entice would-be developers to the downtown, key to long-cherished plans for renovation.

“The vision for our downtown is one of shopping, entertainment, dining, and most of all living in our city,” the letter states. “Part of the Chamber’s job is to assist the City of Auburn in the recruitment of developers to building in our downtown. With all the new improvements and enhancement to our downtown area, we are excited to promote our great assets to those developers.

“The only blight on our excitement,” the letter continues, “is when showing off these great improvements, we have your unsightly building situated right in the middle of it all. We do not know what your longterm intentions are for this property. However, we are requesting that you be a good neighbor and do your part for the redevelopment and improvements of our downtown by addressing the unsightliness of your building, whether by demolition or by refurbishing the exterior.”

Rubbing a bit of salt in the wound is this fact: that the Bank of Washington was offered a break on demolition costs by having it done jointly with the razing of the old Marvel Grocery building and Charlie Wong building, but said no.

“What’s so frustrating is we had like 4,000 people downtown for the Santa Parade Saturday, and it was wonderful, and you’re going down the street, you’re seeing these beautiful new buildings and renovations, and you get to the (City) Plaza, and here’s the ugly sight of that building,” Wyatt said. “And you know, this is supposed to be a time of celebration, and we have to look at that.”

That the bank can countenance such an ugly holding, Wyatt said, might have something to do with its distance from Auburn.

“… The bank is far removed, up there in Lynnwood. Have any of them ever come up here and taken a look at their actual property? That’s why I also sent them photos,” Wyatt said. “The sad thing is that the building has been vacant for more than six months, which means they would have to get up to certain codes, and right now that building wouldn’t do that.”