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Article: Hollywood Boulevard merchants not getting into spirit of academy awards. (Up Front).(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 11, 2002
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Not everyone is happy that Hollywood is coming back to life.
The community's renewed popularity is making some shop owners angry as several event-related street closures recently have caused them to lose business.
Now they are dreading a planned five-day closure of a section of Hollywood Boulevard for the Academy Awards in two weeks.
"They are doing big damages to business. It's a mess," said Batia Zahavi, owner of Hollywood Souvenirs, a tourist shop located a few doors away from Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland, which will be the venue for the Oscars presentation on March 24. "We prefer that they go back ...