Name: Episode 1042 | ABQ Rapid Transit Business Impacts
Uploaded: 2017-12-25T13:21:34.000Z
Duration: 12 min 33 s
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>> WE WANTED TO HEAR FROM SOME OF THE BUSINESS OWNERS ALONG

THIS ROUTE DEALING WITH CONSTRUCTION FOR THE

ALBUQUERQUE RAPID TRANSIT PROJECT, RIGHT AT THEIR FRONT

I AM JOINED AT THE TABLE BY GABRIEL AMADOR, CO-OWNER OF

AMORE NEAPOLITAN PIZZERIA, WHICH HAS LOCATIONS IN THE

GREEN JEANS FARMERY AND AT CARLISLE AND I-40 AND COUNTRY

CLUB PLAZA ON CENTRAL AVENUE IN WEST DOWNTOWN.

AND COLLIN TROY IS CO-OWNER OF THE OCTOPUS AND FOX AND

ARTISAN STORE ON CENTRAL AVENUE IN THE ETO DISTRICTS,

>> SO, LET'S START WITH THE BIG QUESTION.

HAVE YOU TAKEN A FINANCIAL HIT DURING THE ART CONSTRUCTION?

IT IS KIND OF HARD FOR US TO GAUGE A PERCENTAGE BECAUSE WE

WERE STILL A NEW BUSINESS WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION STARTED.

>> WE OPENED IN JUNE AND WE OPENED IN JUNE SO WE WERE

STILL GETTING THAT LITTLE RAMP UP OF BUSINESS AND BUILDING

CLIENTELE AND THEN OCTOBER WAS WHEN THE CONES WENT UP IN

FRONT US AND OUR BUSINESS REALLY DID KIND OF TAPER OFF

>> WE DROPPED, I WOULD SAY, PROBABLY 20% BUT WE WERE AT A

POINT WHERE WE WERE STILL TRYING TO BUILD AND WEREN'T

CLOSE TO WHERE WE NEEDED TO BE OR SHOULD BE YET, SO WE HAVE

NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GET TO THE BASELINE WHERE WE SHOULD BE.

>> YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE 2013, YOU HAD A LOCAL

>> AS FAR AS FINANCIAL HIT IT HAS BEEN NEAR A DISASTER FOR

>> SIMILAR FOR GABRIEL, THE CONSTRUCTION STARTED IN MID

OCTOBER AND WE ALWAYS WERE CURIOUS HOW IT WOULD AFFECT

AT FIRST IT MADE BUSINESS VERY UNPREDICTABLE, YOU KNOW, JUST

ALL OF THE KIND OF TRAFFIC THAT WE COULD RELY ON STARTED

TO CHANGE AND THEN IN LATE FEBRUARY, IN FRONT OF OUR

STORE, RIGHT THERE ON CENTRAL AND EDITH, THE CONSTRUCTION

REALLY INTENSIFIED AND IT MADE IT NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO GET IN

AND, FROM WHEN CONSTRUCTION REALLY INTENSIFIED THERE IN

THE MIDDLE TO LATE FEBRUARY, WE SAW 60% REDUCTION IN SALES

IN MARCH AND -- >> THAT IS FROM LAST YEAR?

>> I THINK YOU SAID ON YOUR -- ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS THAT LAST

YOU HAVE BEEN OPEN FOR FIVE OR SIX YEARS.

I WANT TO MAKE IT ALSO JUST HAVE YOU EXPLAIN YOUR

YOU'RE NOT QUITE A CO-OP BUT BASICALLY DOING CONSIGNMENT

WORK AND IT IS NOT JUST YOU LOSING MONEY, IT IS LOCAL

ARTISTS WHO PUT STUFF IN YOUR STORE TO SELL.

IT IS A CONSIGNMENT DEAL AND IT IS VERY GENEROUS TO THE

WE DEAL WITH OVER 40 ARTISTS IN THE STORE AND, YEAH, THE

ECONOMY OF OUR SHOP DOES, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT A NUMBER OF

ARTISAN FAMILIES AND MAKERS ALL AROUND TOWN AND SO IT IS

>> ARE YOU EVEN PULLING STUFF OUT BECAUSE OF THAT?

WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE A VERY LOYAL SUPPORTIVE GROUP OF

ARTISTS AND CUSTOMERS AND SO FAR, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KEEP

>> GABRIEL, YOUR LOCATION IN WEST DOWNTOWN, YOU SAY WAS

GETTING ESTABLISHED ALONG WITH SOME OTHER NEW RESTAURANTS.

DO YOU THINK THE TIMING OF THE CONSTRUCTION HAD A ROLE IN

ESTABLISHING REGULAR PATRONS TO AMORE AND OTHER RESTAURANTS

YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THERE AS LONG AS DURANS.

>> WITH BUSINESSES IN WEST DOWNTOWN, THERE IS A LOT OF

OLD ONES BUT A LOT OF NEW ONES AND IT IS A RAPIDLY CHANGING

A LOT LIKE WITH THE ARTS AND CULTURE DISTRICT, WHERE WE ARE

DEFINITELY ALIGNED WITH THEM AND CLOSE, AND I THINK WHEN IT

COMES DOWN TO IT, BUSINESSES THERE, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE ALL

THEY HAVE ALL TAKEN A HIT AS FAR AS THEIR BUSINESS, I

THINK, YOU KNOW, IT IS DIFFERENT TO ABSORB THAT FOR

NEWER BUSINESSES AS OPPOSED TO AN ESTABLISHED BUSINESS,

BECAUSE IT IS HARD TO BUILD CLIENTELE THROUGH SOMETHING

LIKE THAT AS OPPOSED TO WHEN YOU HAVE THAT ESTABLISHED

CLIENTELE THAT IS THERE TO SUPPORT YOU AND GET YOU

WELL, BUT, AS FAR AS, YEAH, THE AFFECT ON IT, IT HAS

BEEN -- I THINK IT HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD ACROSS ALL THE

>> YOU'RE A PART OF A GROUP IN WEST DOWNTOWN BUSINESS OWNERS.

YOU CAME TOGETHER DURING CONSTRUCTION AND TALK ABOUT

>> WELL, ORIGINALLY WE GOT TOGETHER AND IT WAS REALLY

ABOUT GETTING THROUGH ART AND FINDING A WAY TO ADVERTISE

THROUGH THAT, SOMEHOW WORK TOGETHER TO GET THROUGH IT,

YOU KNOW, ESSENTIALLY, AND TRY TO SURVIVE.

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