Owner of Taco Punk says bridge construction hindered business

by WHAS11

WHAS11.com

Posted on September 24, 2014 at 5:52 PM

Updated yesterday at 5:57 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- It's no secret that going in, around, or out of downtown Louisville these days is a challenge. Blockades, detours and orange barrels litter the city. Now a NuLu restaurant, Taco Punk, claims the bridge construction is a big reason they have to close their doors.

"Once the bridges project started our income over last year dropped about 30 percent," explained the restaurant owner Gabe Sowder.

Sowder said last summer the restaurant was hopping, but a tough winter and then the bridge construction limiting lunchtime-goers easy access to the neighborhood, forced Gabe to make a hard decision. He chose to not put off the inevitable and close Taco Punk.

"Mostly we just depend so much on the free flow of traffic from downtown to here that people just can't make a timely circuit," he said.

Sowder admits that Taco Punk may not be in the best location in NuLu since it's on one of the blocks farther away from downtown. Restaurants closer to downtown, like Harvest, shared that they havent seen any deterrence due to the bridge construction.

"Our business has been very solid, kind of right on projection is what we are looking at," Harvest manager Tim Quinland said.

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Owner of Taco Punk says bridge construction hindered business