Many owners and managers of businesses deemed “non-essential” during recent shutdowns, done to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, faced a series of unpleasant but necessary choices. One was more pragmatic than anything — namely, what do you do with a storefront that likely won’t be re-opened for weeks at best? Some retailers in the United States and abroad opted to board up their storefronts during the temporary closure.
Writing at Gothamist, Ben Yakas wrote about a group of retailers in New York City who are facing a backlash for their decision to board up storefronts. The article quotes Jeffrey LeFrancois of the Meatpacking District Business Improvement District, as warning about the way these storefronts look. “While technically it’s not illegal to board up your storefront, it’s definitely an uncomfortable message,” said LeFrancois.
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Owner forges ahead with new bakery In the Mix - News - The Repository - Canton, OH
Ashley Graham’s original plan was to open her In the Mix Bakery in downtown Louisville last October.
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“We ran into some structural issues that we had to get taken care of,” Graham said. “I had a heck of a time finding a mason to come in and fix everything.”
The bakery’s opening was postponed until early 2020. And then the coronavirus turned everything upside down, requiring people to stay home and many businesses to close.
New Downtown Jersey City store opens to make food shopping 'easier' for locals - nj.com
JERSEY CITY — Cosmo Cangiano drives from Staten Island to Jersey City every day to his new shop in Downtown. He says he's not afraid to go into work because he has one goal: help people get food.
Cangiano's Marketplace opened its 225 Pavonia Ave. storefront for the first time on Tuesday and business hasn't been slow since, Cangiano told The Jersey Journal on Sunday.
"Me, my family and my partners' family are having such a hard time finding food, that's why we really did want to open for everyone here," Cangiano said. "To make things a little easier for everybody."
Artists brighten Foster Rd by painting boarded up storefronts | KOIN.com
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Artists on Foster Road have been working to brighten up a neighborhood shuttered by the coronavirus. Photojournalist Matt Rashleigh shows us how they’ve been doing it.
Travis Wheeler wanted to help his Southeast Portland community by making boarded up storefronts less scary and more positive.
“This is a time when artists need to be out helping. Everyone should do whatever they can and this is what art can do,” said Wheeler.
Many things are taking place:
South Africa's shuttered storefronts a sign of economic pain
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JOHANNESBURG – It's been more than three weeks since Moses equipped a kitchen, Yambu welded a gate and Mboni sold almost everything. For their shops and others on Soweto's deserted Luthuli Street, it could be weeks, if ever, before they see business again.
South Africa has been on lockdown except for essential services to combat the coronavirus pandemic. If the results so far appear promising — crime at its lowest level in years, a downtown Johannesburg seemingly free of air pollution — there is a toll. Small businesses like these cannot operate.
Online marketplace created for Pueblo businesses
The initiative is an online marketplace where Pueblo businesses can offer goods and services to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to a release from Pueblo County Public Information Officer, Adam Uhernik, the marketplace will allow business owners to sell products without the hassle of tracking orders or delivery of products to customers.
By selling on the Supporting Pueblo marketplace, business owners will have a dedicated team of customer service reps, fulfillment, delivery, and promotion services to keep them connected to Pueblo residents who need their products and services, the release said.
'It is uncivil': Honey bear murals on shuttered SF storefronts defaced amid pandemic -
In the U.S., Luxury Brands Board Up the Store - The New York Times
In London, department stores like Harrods and Selfridges, and Bond Street boutiques like Burberry and Chopard, have cleared jewels and stock from plain sight. Little wonder, given that for the next three weeks at least not a single customer will be walking through the doors.
But in New York, where the cobbled streets of SoHo have shuddered to a standstill as state measures to slow the spread of the virus have taken hold, a number of elegant luxury boutiques, including Fendi, Celine and Chanel, did not just shutter storefronts this week; they had them boarded up with vast sheets of plywood, as if in anticipation of riots and civil disobedience, similar to how they react to European protests .
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