Plans to spruce up Frisco’s historic downtown before next year’s World Cup have business owners demanding help from the city to stay open.
Frisco’s downtown, called the Rail District, will be revitalized with major street and sidewalk improvements. The goal is to make the downtown area very walkable, with wider sidewalks, landscaping and lighting.
But small business owners who are established here fear the lengthy impact of construction will drive them out of business before they ever see it finished.
Rod Smith is the most vocal of those who said his barber shop, called Brooklyn Cutz, has been suffocated by construction…