Downtown Rochester construction impacts business

It's construction season, and you can expect road closures and detours in downtown Rochester.

It's summer construction season.

Especially in downtown rochester - you'll notice a lot of ripped up roads - road closed signs - and detours.

For one downtown business this goes beyond your typical construction season.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson joins us live to explain.

Annalise?

Construction blocking-lvo-3 yeah i'm here at -road names- and here behind me is just one of several construction projects going on downtown.

This is phase one of destination medical center's heart of the city public realm project.

Construction blocking-lvo-1 construction blocking-lvo-2 linda smith owns optical vision with flair in rochester's peace plaza.

She's feeling frustrated by all the downtown construction.

She closed for ten weeks because of the pandemic - and now that she's open - she's having a hard time drawing in customers because of the construction and lack of parking.xxx construction blocking-lsot-1 construction blocking-lsot-2 people do not want to come downtown anymore.

I mean people call me all the time and they just don't want to come, there's no parking, everywhere you go there's construction.

Its killing us small businesses construction blocking-lsot-3 and it's not just contained to the downtown streets... beginning today - north and south broadway are impacted as well.

Live in rochester annalise johnson kimt news 3.

/ thank you annalise.

Construction blocking-tag-2 we have maps of all the construction projects happening downtown - as well as their expected end dates - on our website at kimt dot com.