Will Outdoor Ice Rink Help Bring Downtown K Street Businesses Back?

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The Downtown Sacramento crystal rink opened Thursday for the archetypal clip successful 2 years, offering caller ft postulation to a K Street artifact that has been facing bleak times.

“This is my archetypal time,” 12-year-old Charles Taylor said astatine the rink Thursday.

Taylor was 1 of the hundreds who were there.

“I person fallen a lot,” Taylor said.

Taylor already has a large beingness acquisition down.

“Always retrieve you person to conscionable get backmost up and effort again,” Taylor said.

Around the rink, downtown businesses are battling their mode backmost up, too.

Gerine Williams runs Devil May Care Ice Cream crossed the thoroughfare from the recently opened crystal rink.

“It’s precise difficult, but we’re here,” Williams said. “The crystal rink should bring a batch much families down to K Street.”

Her store is surrounded by bare storefronts now. Three of the six spaces successful her Hardin gathering are barren.

“Nobody wants bare businesses, and each the things that travel with it,” Williams said.

Downtown K Street has struggled to summation crowds similar the 1 astatine the rink with consistency, adjacent contempt each the redevelopment done present pre-pandemic.

The instrumentality of the crystal rink did bring caller faces and caller opportunities for sales.

EJ Amado brought his children to skate and past crossed the thoroughfare for a scoop.

“Oh I spent $17 full betwixt crystal skating and crystal pick truthful it was great,” Amado said.

It each adds up for concern owners seeking to assistance their bottommost line.

“I deliberation we request people, much radical downtown,” Williams said. “And that’s going to instrumentality a batch of enactment from each of us.”

There is skating astir the issue. The downtown crystal rink is back.

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K Street’s comeback volition beryllium much complicated.