Sidewalk work killing business at one Cambridge bar
By adamg - 9/13/09 - 12:24 pm
Barwarrior chronicles the fate of the Field in Central Square while the city widens the sidewalk out front.
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Barwarrior chronicles the fate of the Field in Central Square while the city widens the sidewalk out front.
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Has anyone ever heard the
By J - 9/13/09 - 1:29 pm
Has anyone ever heard the following conversation?
"Hey guys, lets go to ____"
"naw man, theyre working on the sidewalk, lets go somewhere else"
I just dont understand how construction of any kind lowers business.
Do you plan every visit to a business in advance?
By EricJay - 9/13/09 - 4:39 pm
There have been plenty of times when I've gone into a store, restaurant, or bar without having planned my visit in advance. Quite often, we're just out and about, and make a spur of the moment decision to go in based on something we see in a window or whatnot.
It's also not all that uncommon for me to cross the street to avoid walking through a construction area.
Certainly
By rsybuchanan - 9/14/09 - 10:54 am
The smokers with whom I work/drink routinely avoid places where there's no sidewalk on which for them to smoke. That would be a bigger problem for a narrow, high traffic, high speed stretch of road like that block of Prospect St.