Burlington business owner says public safety issues are turning customers away: ‘The worst we’ve seen it’

Burlington business owner says public safety issues are turning customers away: ‘The worst we’ve seen it’

A business owner in downtown Burlington, Vermont, admitted that the city’s homelessness and drug crisis, as well as its spiking crime rate, has cost his sporting goods shop more business than at any point in its long history. John George-Wheeler, the owner of Skirack – a sports store at the heart of Vermont’s most populated city – told Fox News Digital this month that the economic cost of customers being driven away from downtown due to safety c…

Burlington business owner says public safety issues are turning customers away: ‘The worst we’ve seen it’ – Democratic Accent

A business owner in downtown Burlington, Vermont, admitted that the city’s homelessness and drug crisis, as well as its spiking crime rate, has cost his sporting goods shop more business than at any point in its long history. John George-Wheeler, the owner of Skirack – a sports store at the heart of Vermont’s most populated city – told Fox News Digital this month that the economic cost of customers being driven away from downtown due to safety c…