OTTAWA — Bogdan Wozniak arrived to open his hotdog stand in downtown Ottawa Tuesday for the first time this season, and was greeted by a vision from the past.
“That’s gonna be tough for people who have a business in downtown and rely on them,” said Wozniak.
“I’ve heard that coffee shops are definitely booming,” said Michelle Groulx, executive director at the Ottawa Coalition of Business Improvement Areas. “When you have like a population of one specific type, and that happens to be federal servants that are not working in the office as much, you’re certainly going to see that whole entire population disappear as customers,” Groulx said.
“We’re operating based on the assumption that we will not see the same numbers of people returning from nine to five, five days a week,” Troster said.She is on a committee with federal and municipal politicians, as well as housing developers and not-for-profit organizations to reimagine and revitalize the area around Parliament Hill.Article content
She used to take two buses to get to work every day, but hadn’t returned to work until the strike started because of a medical exemption that allows her to work from home full time.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“I would not come back, seriously,” she said.
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