Old Colorado City shops still struggling during holiday sales
Old Colorado City shops still struggling during holiday sales
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Many small businesses in Colorado Springs are still struggling to survive amid COVID-19 precautions, even with an increase in sales around the holidays.
While recent sales have been encouraging, Julie Fabrizio, owner of The Holly Leaf in Old Colorado City, told us she doesn't think the holidays will be enough to bounce back from the indoor retail shutdown months ago, and the fear some people still have for going out in public.
"When you've been in business 26 years and you don't know if you're going to make it or not, it's kind of frightening," Fabrizio told us. "You can't make up when you've been down as far as all of us have been down, but if we can maintain and hang in there, hopefully next year will be better."