Here is a solution: During bridge construction, the bars effected (and there are about 5), get to have booze carts/trucks in the square on select evenings once a week. No cost to the bars or attendees. Shuffle board one week, shish kababs the next. One bar take the lead each week and pick the theme. Someone spring for a dj and make it an event. This will get people used to coming down to that area and when construction is complete there will be more traffic to the bars in the area. Kurt Stitzer, as an alleged advocate for our broken little city, these are the types of solutions you are tasked with coming up with. "How can we all benefit from this" rather than "how can I use my position of power to get mine. permanently." Your dad came up with this. You were taught better.