How COVID-19 is impacting Terre Haute

Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett addressed your questions when it comes to COVID-19.

Human and people want to help people they really do" your questions answered... terre haute's mayor is addressing your concerns..

As the city deals with the coronavirus... good evening and thanks for joining us.

Tonight... wthi-tv brought you a conversation with the mayor.

It was a chance for terre haute mayor duke bennett to take on all the building projects... business issues... and other concerns facing the city.

News 10's sarah lehman was there.

She explains some of the biggest issues discussed.

We are seeing the impact this pandemic has across the state..

Country... and world.

But what about right here in terre haute?

Mayor duke bennett sat down and answered your questions tonight.

Here are just a few of the big topics he discussed.

First -- he talked about projects in terre haute.

Before the pandemic we had projects in the works like a new convention center and a casino.

Tonight -- mayor bennett says things have slowed down as far as progress for those projects -- but they haven't stopped.

Work started on the convention center today.

He says they are doing everything they can to get things going without putting anyone in danger of getting the virus.

He also talked about businesses.

He says he's been hearing from a lot of businesses in the city.

And has found out bigger businessess are weathering this situation better.

Meanwhile -- smaller busineses -- as we've seen -- are struggling.

He says they are trying to help them and point them in the right directon for help.

But you can help too by supporting locally owned resturants and businesses.

Mayor bennett also talked about how these times could restructure the way the city is operated.

Right now -- more and more people are using technology to do every day things.

He says as a city we should try and embrace that once this is all over to help propel terre haute into being more tech friendly.

Mayor bennett says to continue to listen to and pay attention to the governors orders.

He says he's feeling better about things but it is not the time to let your guard down.

"we will get through this and we will survive this as a communtiy and we're going to be better for it at the end and so i'm optimistic and encouraged that we can kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel here and it's getting brighter everyday and very soon in the coming week you're going to start to see some more normal things happening."

We have the entire question and answer with mayor bennett and the chamber of commerce over on our website w-t-h-i-t-v dot com.

Reporting live in the newsroom sarah lehman news 10 back to you.

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