My family owns the tiny commercial operation tighten to the home. Few years ago, the city (or the state, I’m not sure) proposed you do office office building the whole around the area for office office building the brand new main road or something. This office office building the whole didn’t outcome the commercial operation until recently. About 4 months ago, the store starting losing about half of the commercial operation revenues, which is unequivocally spiteful the family’s finance management (Many of the adjacent businesses have been additionally spiteful really bad since of the construction). They fundamentally broken and/or shut off off all the roads surrounding the store. It looks similar to the office office building the whole is starting to be one after another for during slightest 2 some-more years. However, I frequency see people operative upon the roads.
Is there anything which you can do about this? Should you sue the city or something? Is there any supervision remuneration which you can record the explain for? To have counts worse, the office office building owners only lifted the lease (unbelievable!!). Please help!!
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You are fighting an upward battle… The city will claim that at their council meetings they were available for public input, where were you? They have notified you in the mail as well or so they will claim. If however, you voiced your concerns to the council, and they then were a hindrance to your finances, you have standing and can go to the city council with a suit that they will most likely put into arbritation.
This has happened over and over again in Clearwater Florida, beach street renovations. Its really tough for a business like your families. I think some of the best things those businesss did was to call the local tv station (all of them) and have them do stories on it. This didnt change the construction, but it reminded everyone in the community they were still there and needed business. I know several of my friends made a point to go to these businesses to patronize due to the stories on TV
Good Luck
I am afraid you cannot do anything legally but you can certainly take it up with your local alderman, city councilman, senator or mayor of your city. Maybe they will be able to speed up the work or put in an alternate route around the construction so that people can have access to your business. You could also talk to the landlord and ask him to give you a break on the rent instead of just raising your rent arbitrarily especially in light of the construction situation. I know what you are going through as I owned a business which went through something similar.
Good luck.