Twelve hours a day, 27-year-old Urja Paudel runs a little store she bought in March near the corner of 33rd Avenue and Holly Street in Denver.

"It is a rough neighborhood, yeah. So there wasn't a lot of people who were, like, willing to buy it," she explained. "We were looking around and I thought about it for a while and I was like 'OK, I think I could do it.'"

CBS Colorado's Alan Gionet interviews Urja Paudel inside Holly Market in Denver. CBS

Things have been okay so far. In the neighborhood she hasn't had much trouble. It's possible, she thinks, that the neighbors really want her there in a shopping plaza where other businesses are closed.

"A lot of people in this neighborhood, they walk here. This is the closest walkable market that we have," Paudel said.

There's food on the sh

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