Rodrigues “Rod” Smith said he watched his business slowly plummet on Main Street in Frisco during the current construction projects of a parking garage, 4th Street Plaza and Main Street itself.
“Being brutally honest, I knew I couldn’t survive that, because I wasn’t bringing the money in,” Smith said.
Barber’s struggles
The 49-year-old barber said he’d been in a space in the 6900 block of Main Street for six years. Trying to meet the cost of the rent, take care of employees, support his sons and himself from a crumbling customer base became too much.
“Terrible, man. I lost 30 pounds behind this, and I’ve been wearing two faces,” he said. “You might think I’m doing good, yeah, but I’m a prideful man, too. “…