LANSING, Mich. — Local business owners are feeling the hit as they watch Lansing's Home and Garden show pack up after it was canceled on Thursday.
"Grief, just grief," said Kathy Stevens, the manager of Landscape Development. "It's a huge loss."
Kathy Stevens somberly tears down her grand display at the Home and Garden Show, with each piece a reminder of the financial and labor loss.
"It's many thousands, you're probably looking at $50,000 to $70,000 dollars that's sitting here," said Stevens.
This is just the start of the financial hit Landscape Development is gonna take, as local businesses depend on major events like an annual Home and Garden Show to get their spring and summer customers.
"We are not going to have the opportunity to have to talk to those people," said Stevens. "We invest a huge amount of money into this garden, it's devastating."
Hundreds of long-time local businesses were scheduled to fill the Home and Garden Show.
"I feel sorry for everybody, everybody's impacted by this, it hurts everybody," said Sue Ott, of Jolly Green Junction.
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