The coffee at Kefa Café in Silver Spring is apparently so good that some customers are willing to thread their way through a construction area, risk a parking ticket and then hop over a Jersey barrier.
But not every business along the 16-mile route of the still-under-construction Purple Line is so lucky.
Some — watching business fade as a result of the construction outside their doors — have shuttered for good.
That’s why a special appropriation of $231,000 is being introduced Tuesday by the Montgomery County Council. That money is intended to help small businesses weather the revenue losses resulting from the disruptions of the ongoing transit construction.
Click here to read to the rest of the article written by Kate Ryan over at WTOP
