COVID-19 restrictions.Liz Miller has owned Good Fibrations textile shop on Germain Street for about six years. She said she was disappointed when she did not see flowers being planted outside her store, and others in the uptown, as she had in previous years.She said it’s difficult to attract people to the core of the city when it doesn’t look its best.“It’s sad,” Miller said. “And I’ve heard a lot of people who don’t own shops say the same thing.
It looks sad and it looks derelict a little bit.”Miller closed her storefront during the pandemic and shifted to online sales and curbside pickup.