Twelve hours a day, 27-year-old Urja Paudel runs a little store she bought in March near the corner of 33rd Avenue and Holly Street in Denver.
“It is a rough neighborhood, yeah. So there wasn’t a lot of people who were, like, willing to buy it,” she explained. “We were looking around and I thought about it for a while and I was like ‘OK, I think I could do it.'”
Things have been okay so far. In the neighborhood she hasn’t had much trouble. It’s possible, she thinks, that the neighbors really want her there in a shopping plaza where other businesses are closed.
“A lot of people in this neighborhood, they walk here. This is the closest walkable market that we have,” Paudel said…