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In January 2020, when Melissa Melonson transitioned and rebranded her marketing agency Lumi Hospitality to focus almost exclusively on the leisure, travel and real estate industries, she could not have imagined the devastating impact the global pandemic would have two months later on those sectors and her young company’s bottom line.
“Close to 50 percent of my [client] contracts paused … overnight, which was very scary,” said Melonson, who founded her company in 2016.
The Picnic in the Park series – where Hartford restaurants sell boxed meals in Bushnell Park and live musicians play – runs June 10 to Sept. 23. The event also is expanding to New Haven this year, as Picnic in the Plaza, in Temple Plaza, starting May 28.