Small business owners in Orlando’s Ivanhoe Village say they’re feeling the hurt from an ongoing construction project.
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The City of Orlando says a pipeline replacement project known as “North Orange Avenue Sanitary Sewer Improvement Project” is providing a needed update to the city’s sewer system.
But, over the last year businesses say it created a parking mess for customers and hurt their bottom line.
Business owners in Ivanhoe Village told Channel 9 on Thursday, a private lot owned by Lake Highland Preparatory School has been their go-to recommendation during the construction project, but last week, their customers were told by school security that the lot is no longer open to the public.
“We’ve been open 12 years. And people have been parking there for 12 years. So, it came as a shock,” said Jason Lambert, the owner of the Hammered Lamb, a pub in Ivanhoe Village.
Lambert told Channel 9 …