Packed. You may wonder what does this mean for local businesses . We had a chance to talk to some of them a short time ago and they honestly dont even know. With just over a week before pope francis comes to town, we wanted to know from Business Leaders you know whats going on, you know what the real plan is . Absolutely not. Reporter no . Absolutely not. Not yet. Reporter general manager at nathans crossing pub busy stocking up small 600 square foot restaurant as best he can beer kegs along walls. Were buying two more freezers for food and were going to take out that table right behind me. Reporter to use for Storage Space because last shipment of food will come thursday night to last through the weekend. Will he run out friday, saturday, sunday . Hes just not sure. Getting here will require a trip through one security zone maybe two. Frankly theyre not sure about that either. Bartender tom is sure about one thing. I wont be here. Reporter hes been through this before working the bar
Eight hours from now, starting at 6 00 in the morning, the outer lanes will be closed to traffic on the parkway and this is just the beginning. Just about every day next week parking restrictions will go into effect. It is going to be tough to get around. Good evening, everyone, im chris oconnell. Im joyce evans. Fox 29s brad sattin is live on the parkway. Brad, are the businesses in that area ready for all of this . Reporter ill tell was, joyce, thats the Million Dollar question for sure. Here it is a week before and other other than big party going on on the roof of fridays its fairly mellow right now. But as you mentioned the pope is going to be here along this stretch part of par rater both on saturday and sunday. The barriers are going to start going up in the next few days. This place is going to be jam packed. You may wonder what does this mean for local businesses . We had a chance to talk to some of them a short time ago and they honestly dont even know. With just over a week