- June 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
BALTIMORE — Mark Tsakiris, the owner of The Boulevard Diner in Dundalk says after shelling out nearly 55K per week just to stay afloat, the least he can get for it is an explanation.
After struggling though a costly pandemic, Tsakiris was thrilled to celebrate 20 years since their grand opening unaware that nearly a month later, flood waters would be what really wiped their business out.
“This was kinda catastrophic because we lost a lot of our equipment,” he shared.
The costly equipment damaged would only add to mounting expenses after he decided to keep his staff on board offering whatever hours he could which, alone, costs the diner roughly $25K weekly.
He says after the flood from a water main break near Merritt Boulevard and Holabird Avenue they pumped nearly 20,000 gallons of water from the basement.
Now, the place is all dried up much like communication with Baltimore City’s Department of Public Works.
“I call the city. They send me to all of…
