BOSTON – Stores in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood say they are losing business after construction work began on Main Street. The shops are barely visible behind the equipment and orange cones.
Boston Water and Sewer crews are doing much-needed maintenance work on the pipes around the neighborhood. However, the caution tape, noise, and construction equipment are impacting small businesses in the area.
“That’s the first customer I had today in two hours, and I probably won’t get another one, I hate to say it, all day,” Betty, a consignment store employee told WBZ-TV.
“Put some of us out of business”
It’s slow because the shop’s front door is a construction zone, with crews climbing in and out of a giant hole in the roadway…