Business owners with shops in Alliance Bank Center downtown were told late Monday they had to immediately vacate the premises — although the tenants now say the city has promised to keep the lights on until April 1.
Tenants received a note from Alliance Center, LLC, which is owned by Madison Equities, that all the building’s utilities would be shut off in the very near future. The fire department informed them the lights would be off by Wednesday.
The sudden announcement left 14 businesses, including a pizza shop, a jewelry store and a hemp supplier, scrambling to figure out how they would move thousands of products in two days…