Baseball HOF affects local businesses

small business can potentially take hit from canceled weekend

A major affect cooperstown's small businesses.

Newschanel2's chelsea sherrod has the story pkg: main street shops are usually filled with tourists and baseball fans on hall of fame induction weekend but, the calmness of the strip that you see now, will be the same then.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many of the small businesses and restuarants on main street in cooperstown to close currently and the postponement of the hall of fame induction ceremony hasn't made the thought of them returning any easier.

Mayor ellen tillapaugh: i think many of our businesses are trying innovative ways to make sure that their businesses survive that's online sales etc.

Last year, the hall of fame induction ceremony estimated about 55,000 fans in attendance and with a headliner like new york yankees great, derek jeter, being a 2020 class ind uctee, one can only imagine what this year's crowd would have been like.

That would've meant a lot of business in cooperstown for restaurants like danny's market on main street.

We spoke to the owner, who chose not to be shown on camera.

Phillip andrew: hall of fame weekend is just one weekend it's a huge weekend for town and you get a buzz before and after that because you got a look at all of these bed and practices and hotels around town that aren't going to have rooms rented out and that's where everything starts it starts with the hotels and bed-and-breakfast and tory is coming in town and when they stay there they come out in the shop in town and they eat in town and it's going to put a big hurting on everybody residents of the village are rallying behind local business becuase of the impact that the absence of hall of fame weekend can have on their annual revenue wendy kuiber: we want to support the local businesses because they still have to pay the rent they still have to pay their bills but without being open it's definitely a tough time for them and we're going into what supposed to be there lucrative season 2021 will be the first combined induction ceremony inon donnelly: it will be great it will be awesomit ll be justhat we st what we needyou cs by ordering take-out, delivery and pick-up.

Here in cooperstown i'm chelsea sherrod, newschannel2.

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