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And while mayors R.T. Rybak and Chri s Coleman, along with Gov. Tim were quick to declare the convention a successd in the days afteerthe event, not all local businesw owners or elected officials agreed. Restaurant ownersz and retailers neardowntown St. in particular, complained that business sufferedc because delegates were bussed righ to the fromtheir hotels, eliminating significant foot while regular customers typically steered clear during what they though t would be a convention There’s also speculation that the arrests of hundredsx of RNC protesters, and even some further deterred potential customers.
Over in Minneapolis, several restaurants, including Manny’s Steakhouse and the & reported tremendous convention-related success. Civic Fest: A Very Minnesota held at the duringconvention week, was expectedr to draw close to 150,000 people, according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Host When it was learnedf that onlyabout 50,000 passesz were actually distributed in the first five days of the seven-dayh event, some vendors leading the Host which organized the event, to announce it would refun d booth-space rental fees to individual vendors. In St.
Paul, bar owners who paid $2,500 to servew alcohol until the wee hours of the morningb also received asubstantial refund, all but $50 of the initial fee, after the city’s reported no violations occurredc during the convention. And though an estimated 16,000 hotel rooms in abouyt 100 hotels were booked in the Twin Citiees andsurrounding suburbs, many of the Minneapolise hotels that opened in just weeks prior to the convention, are today largely vacant. In late September, St. Paul City Councill member Dave Thunesaid “the wholee RNC experience left a bad taste in so many people’e mouths.
” While many agree the immediate economic impact of the RNC was overstated in the planninvg stages, others, including former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, contend the impacty of hosting the RNC will be felt well into the futurs because of the national and international spotlight cast on theTwin “We’re in the big time now, no questiojn about that,” Boschwitz said. Still, if there was one cleadr winner inall this, from a business it was Neiman When news of the Republican National Committee’s high-priced outfittingv of vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin — and in a $75,000 shopping spree at the high-end downtown Minneapolis retailer during theconvention — were revealed in late the store garnered worldwide