The Back Bay Association wants the Boston Water and Sewer Commission to step up and help with a promotional campaign for Newbury Street businesses disrupted by a water main replacement project.
"We are encouraging the commission to do whatever they can to support the businesses of Newbury Street because (those) that are on the impacted blocks are struggling," association president Meg Mainzer-Cohen said. "As much as this is necessary work, the fact that it's impacting businesses to the point where their sales are dramatically off means that Boston Water and Sewer needs to do a much better job of containing their construction sites and ... their work timelines."
Stores, restaurants and other businesses on the popular shopping thoroughfare have been contending with rolling no-parking zones, construction equipment and noise, exposed pipes and water shutoffs.
The project to replace circa-1898 water mains started in September 2011 and ran through last November before resuming in April. It's slated to wrap up by Nov. 15 before starting again next April.
"I'd be happy to put some advertisements in the local newspapers saying something to the effect that Newbury Street is open for business," commission spokesman Thomas Bagley said.
But, he noted, "We don't have a lot of money to spend on this. We do have money to replace and repair infrastructure, which is what we're doing."
Alan Bilzerian, owner of the eponymous boutique at 34 Newbury St., said the damage already is done.
"They couldn't do something more than ruin everybody's business and momentum by coming and doing this before the biggest season a retailer has?" he said. "It's the worst timing."
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