Downtown Augusta businesses prepare for tournament week traffic

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Companies throughout the town are getting ready for the inflow of visitors coming in for golf week.

“This has been a really busy month preparing simply ensuring that we’re prepared for our company,” Mamie Mcabee, Augusta and Firm supervisor, stated.

Prepared or not, the company are coming to city.

“Each time somebody is available in, they’re on the lookout for one thing completely different,” Mcabee stated. “So we get to inform one thing completely different about Augusta.”

Every part she tells somebody about Augusta, that particular person is ready to take a chunk of Augusta again with them.

“No person else has this type of a spot,” Maddie Harm, Augusta Candle Firm supervisor, stated. “We’re simply actually anticipating for individuals to return in at a city to have the ability to expertise Augusta.”

It’s an expertise leaving an eternal impression on locals.

“We click on each time somebody is available in and we’ve had 20, 30 individuals this hour,” Mcabee stated. “To this point, our gross sales have simply exceeded final 12 months. So we’re form of neck to neck with final 12 months.”

It’s one week out of the 12 months taking months of preparations.

“It impacts us actually good,” Harm stated. “We now have like actually good employees that’s all the time motivated and maintaining everybody completely satisfied. I imply, whenever you’re coming to make a candle can’t actually be mad. You possibly can all the time be completely satisfied making a candle.”

The enjoyable is simply getting began for the town, with the Mayor’s Masters Reception kicking off on the Augusta Widespread Sunday.

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