{"id":4790,"date":"2023-10-12T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2023-10-12T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:58:03","slug":"downtown-troy-sees-successful-economy-steady-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/12\/downtown-troy-sees-successful-economy-steady-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Troy sees successful economy, steady business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Across the country, businesses big and small are having to close shop due to a variety of economic difficulties, but is this affecting business in Troy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have seen businesses come and go, but currently I am seeing them come,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fusecoffee.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fuse Coffee<\/a> owner Adam Vinson. \u201cI think in small midsized cities there is a huge push to revitalize downtown areas, and I think that\u2019s something that Troy\u2019s catching up to.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuse is not the only business that continues to thrive in downtown Troy. For the first time in several years, city officials say every building on the downtown square is home to a business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just down the road in Brundidge, there are abandoned buildings without businesses in them. However, one resident told TrojanVision that doesn\u2019t the economy is suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt seems like it\u2019s doing a little bit better,\u201d said Brundidge Business Association President Jason Lee. \u201cEverything kinda got shaken up during the pandemic, and it made a lot of people reevaluate what they want in their lives, so it\u2019s kinda pushing us to be more individual oriented and less about \u2018how do we get a big grocery store here in Brundidge.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local business owners say consumers can help the local economy by choosing to shop locally instead of online or at large retail shops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Across the country, businesses big and small are having to close shop due to a variety of economic difficulties, but is this affecting business in Troy?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen businesses come and go, but currently I am seeing them come,\u201d said Fuse Coffee owner Adam Vinson. \u201cI think in small midsized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/12\/downtown-troy-sees-successful-economy-steady-business\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}