Norfolk’s Pagoda is a “gem.” Local entrepreneurs say doing business there was a nightmare.

Six months after opening Pagoda Ice Cream, owner Matt Henry hung a sign on the door: “We’ll be open no longer. Why? IYKYK.”

Those last five letters stand for “if you know, you know.”

Henry said it’s well-known in the local community that businesses never last long at the Pagoda, the centerpiece of a carefully manicured garden located in Norfolk’s Freemason neighborhood…

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