Metro Council proposes changes to help Second Avenue businesses
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s been a long three years for business owners on Nashville’s Second Avenue after the 2020 Christmas Day bombing decimated the area.
Now, help could soon be on the way.
Metro Council is considering letting businesses serve customers outside.
Second Avenue’s south block closed to vehicle traffic for the next year
Christmas Day 2020 is a day Nashvillian’s said they won’t forget. A man set off an RV bomb along Second Avenue North.
“No one in a million years would think this would happen and no one got hurt or killed,” Barrett Hobbs said.
Hobbs owns Doc Holliday’s bar and restaurant, which was in the path of destruction.
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“Our doors were blown in and they were damaged,” Hobbs said. “Dust, computer equipment, broken bottles everywhere.”
Hobbs and several other business owners along Second Avenue are still crippled by the blast.
“We are here to support these businesses, like Mike’s Ice Cream, because we’re seeing, in some cases, a revenue reduction of 90%,” Metro councilmember Jacob Kupin said.
Kupin and other city leaders are now talking about new ways to help.
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“We want to allow things like sandwich boards, let them advertise on poles are the area, vending from restaurants to serve outside,” Kupin said.
Metro Council is expected to vote on the legislation later this month.
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