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Downtown Lafayette Business Owner Reflects on Challenges and Hopes for 2025
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1/14/2025
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Last year, Star City spoke to downtown businesses on how the year ended and now being in the first week of 2025,
00:06
how has the year been treating downtown Lafayette so far?
00:09
I spoke with the owner of Essentially Aqua, Aurora Wilson, for an update since the last year.
00:14
It's a brand new, fresh start, so of course we're always really excited about what the next coming year is going to hold for the business
00:20
and what we're going to do and some of the exciting products that we're going to roll out and stuff like that.
00:23
Aside from Wilson's excitement, there seems to be a sort of worry in downtown Lafayette for business at the moment.
00:28
So this is my fifth Christmas season downtown and we're just not seeing people come out like they were even in 2021.
00:35
I feel like sales are down and so things are just looking a little bleaker.
00:40
And so I know that a lot of us business owners that are in the downtown area have some concerns and worries about what does 2025 hold for us.
00:48
While walking around Lafayette today, I realized Wilson was right. There wasn't anyone out today shopping.
00:53
These are established businesses, so I think the collective right now is there's a little concern about numbers being down.
01:00
Essentially Aqua's really leaning into 2025, into being Lafayette's primary soap shop.
01:05
I want this to be the place that when you think, OK, I need to get ready in the morning and I want to take care of my skin,
01:10
this is the place that you go and maybe not that other place in the mall.
01:13
Even though the end of 2024 and the first week of 2025 have been weird, Wilson still holds excitement for the year to come.
01:19
It's not just about, you know, the stuff that I sell. You're helping your community.
01:23
So help yourself, help your community, help downtown thrive because it's gorgeous.
01:27
And I would like to see it continue to be just as beautiful as it is.
01:30
Remember, shopping small can make such a huge difference in your community.
01:34
Mattson Deal, Star City News, downtown Lafayette.
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