After battling construction woes for years, businesses in Calgary's Marda Loop area had another hurdle to overcome on Friday - a water main break shutting off the taps.
Businesses in Marda Loop have been wading through construction for nearly two years, but now a broken water main has cut off their supply. Skylar Peters reports.Leading into the weekend, Jodie Tilley’s beauty business is usually bustling, but she’s been forced to operate a lot differently on this particular Friday.
Tilley says no reason was given for the disruption, and they had little more than 12 hours to find a way to deal with it. While 14 hours doesn’t seem like a lot of time for business owners to prepare – it was the best the city could do. Dozens of workers could be seen digging up asphalt early Friday morning – a familiar site for owners in the area who’ve been dealing with construction for the better part of two years already.
Some business owners say they’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue since the construction to revitalize the area began.“People hear about our clinic from word of mouth, or go on to Google and see good reviews… then they look at the location and say ‘oh god no, I’ll find somewhere else,” Tilley says.
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