JANESVILLE
Kari Reents is showing her customers now where they should enter Velvet and Tulle, her West Milwaukee Street boutique, when construction reduces the street to gravel this spring.
From the end of March through part of July, Reentsâ customers will have to use the back entrance to her store at 217 W. Milwaukee St. Thatâs when the first leg of a $5.9 million replacement of West Milwaukee Street will peel up the road and sidewalks on her block and leave nearby Franklin Street closed to traffic for weeks.
Reents, who owns two storefronts, said she and other West Milwaukee Street businesses are fully aware of the impending disruption as construction moves from River Street west to the Five Points intersection this spring, summer and fall.