Metro affects business

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The ongoing work on the Santo Domingo Metro is affecting businesses located on Maximo Gomez Avenue. The street has been closed, making it difficult for shoppers to access the various businesses on the streets. As a result, business managers say they have had to dismiss large number of employees and revenues have also been reduced significantly. Hoy gives the example of a dry cleaner on Maximo Gomez that has had to cut its personnel by half and has lost 70% of its client base. Dry clean owner Miguel Barbero says that he plans to meet with OPRET (Office for the Reorganization of Transport, which is in charge of the Metro project) to see if they are entitled to any compensation for their losses. Among the businesses affected on Maximo Gomez Avenue are three banks, two ice cream parlors, a pizzeria, a gas station, and the Air France offices, among others. A spokesman for the Nacional supermarket, nevertheless, said that they envisioned that business would be better once a metro station opened near their establishment.

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