A section of Grand Avenue will reopen Tuesday after five months of road construction that interrupted some retailers' bottom lines.

The city will hold a celebration event from 4 to 6 p.m., marking the reopening of the area — Grand Avenue between Macalester and Wheeler streets.

Jennifer Gordon is the operations manager at the French Meadow Bakery & Café located on Grand and Macalester Street South. She said the summer months with road construction outside the restaurant were “not ideal.”

“We just had a lack of business — customers not wanting to either go through the mess or not being able to figure out how to get through it,” Gordon said. “It’s been challenging.”

One business, Roseline’s Candles, didn’t survive the construction. They closed on Aug. 31.

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