‘I’m pretty worried’: Spokane Valley businesses afraid of negative construction impacts as city starts 10-week project

July 10, 2021 5:59 PM

Elenee Dao

Posted: July 10, 2021 5:59 PM

Updated: July 10, 2021 7:13 PM

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — After more than 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions and closures, businesses are finally seeing the light in things improving.

However, those in Spokane Valley are now being hit with another hurdle: construction.

“I’m pretty worried,” said Barry Black, the owner of V Twin Brewing.

The brewing company is nearly five years old now. Black said right before COVID-19 hit, they started hitting a point where business was getting good. But, that went away with the pandemic.

“Then I went back to another job in the morning to help support the brewery,” Black said.

It was a blow to him, hearing they had to deal with 10 weeks of construction…

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