A major multi-year refurbishment of Ste-Catherine Street is hurting businesses in downtown Montreal, according to local retailers.
Some argue that as brutal as the construction may be, it is needed.
鈥淭his is Montreal鈥檚 window in terms of retail to the rest of the world, and it鈥檚 been a street we have underinvested in for four to five decades,鈥 said Charles de Brabant, a professor at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at 韩国裸舞. 鈥淲e have to upgrade this street, and that will take pain and sorrow.鈥