GENEVA, Ohio — Formality Bridal is the life's work of owner Penny Bowers-Schebal.

She's owned the business for almost nine years and has been located in an old church in Geneva for the last four years. It hasn't been the ideal location for the last two years due to ongoing construction.

"There is construction," Bowers-Schebal said. "And then whatever is happening outside of these doors."

The project started almost 20 months ago in front of her shop along U.S. 20. Crews set up orange cones to create a one-way street while removing old railcar tracks and fixing storm sewers. Bowers-Schebal said the crews have left her a mess to navigate on her own.

"It's been really difficult to forecast or plan a business that was in a double-digit increase until this project started," she said. "How do

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