RI BUSINESS
Providence businesses still struggling a year after the R.I. Convention Center was forced to close due to COVID-19
With the field hospital closed, but equipment still being stored in the Convention Center, local businesses wonder whether theyâll be able make it through more months without the usual crowds
By Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff,Updated March 10, 2021, 6:00 a.m.
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Ruth Ferrazzano owns Murphy s, which is an Irish-American pub and New York-style deli that has been open since 1929.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
PROVIDENCE â For the last 40 years, people would flock to Murphyâs Pub starting at 9 a.m. on St. Patrickâs Day. The Irish pubâs owner, Ruth Ferrazzano, would watch them gathered on Fountain Street, wearing layers of swinging emerald-colored Mardi Gras beads, four-leaf clover pins, and shades of green that ranged from chartreuse to a shadowy seaweed.