GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Bridge Street meadery will shut its doors for good, blaming a sharp drop in sales on the city’s closure of a nearby public parking lot.
Arktos Meadery, located at 422 Bridge Street in Grand Rapids, wrote in a social media post that the decision to close was a difficult one.
“The economy has been hard on us all, and the recent closure of the main public parking lot near our location, cleared to make way for a new Amway soccer stadium, was far more of an arrow to the knee than the Grand Rapids City Commissioners were willing to admit when we gave them our concerns in public comment when they were looking to approve the project last year,” the meadery wrote…