While the World Cup sparked a boom of economic activity in Boston, its effects were not felt equally. Just ask the owners of the bars, restaurants, shops, tourist attractions and other businesses that offered their frank thoughts to city officials in surveys on the tournament’s impact.
In one bustling corner of downtown Boston, bar owners spoke of jubilant crowds of visitors, a resurgence of nightlife and the delightful sight of rising profits. But not far away, the owner of Chickadee, a high-end Seaport restaurant, saw revenue drop and lamented that only the local bars seemed to be thriving.
“I can’t wait for (the World Cup) to end,” John daSilva, who shuttered Chickadee in mid-July, told the city…