Impact of Cooperstown Dreams Park not opening in 2020

Cooperstown business owners will struggle with no Cooperstown Dreams Park in 2020

Ultimate destination for thousands of youngs kids and their families each summer...but with the cooperstown dreams park anouncing it wll not open this year because of the pandemic...it may be tough for some busineses to survive... without the influx of people.

Here's news channel two's gary liberatore.

(gary liberatore, news channel 2) tc : 18:35 "normally between 13 and 17,000 kids and their parents come here to the cooperstown dreams park but not this year.."

Tc : 19:30 yea, yea, its been a crazy year."

Cooperstown chamber of commerce executive director tara burke says this was suppose to be the year of all years in cooperstown....prob ably the biggest of all time...with #2...yankee captain derek jeter going into the hall of fame.... (tara burke, cooperstown chamber of commerce executive director) .

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None tc : 03:25 "i think everyones kind of waiting in the business community, holding their breath, hoping the induction weekend is going to happen, i know planning is underway right now as if it is going to happen."

I talked to a spokesperson for the national baseball hall of fame on friday.

He says induction weekend is still on as planned as of now.

That's welcome news for many business owners along main street...including vinnie carfagno...owner of 7th inning stretch.... tc : 21:21 "this is the year weve all been waiting for, 2020 is the year weve talked about for probably about 20 years..."

Carfagno says derek jeter will be huge for cooperstown...for about a week....but the other 12 weeks of the so-called 'big 13 week stretch'...from late may until early sepetmber...60-to-70 percent of these small businesses 'business'...comes from the players and families of the cooperstown dreams park... tc : 21:56 "i think its huge, i think its definitely going to affect us, ive always saidthey o you have the hall of fame andtht the dreams park is an audienceto say it."

(gary liberatore, news channel 2) tc : 20:13 "so obviously with the economy shut down for march not april and for who knows how long, thingsag for the entire year its nottoo t 6:00-- how