In Italian Village, big changes are happening along North 4th Street as developers build new apartments, condos, restaurants and more.

Not everyone though is a part of the business boom.

The owner of Spring Cleaners, Dorothy Gall, is getting ready to say goodbye to her business of more than 20 years.

"It's been a fun ride. They're just building all around us. Things they'd been promising to build since before I bought the business," Gall said.

On the corner of 1st Avenue and N 4th Street, the dry cleaning business is where hundreds of Gall's customers have been dropping off clothes for decades.

"I have a lot of customers and I'm going to miss them all. Some of them I've had for the full 20 some years I've been here and it's really hard to say goodbye to them," Gall said.

Gall's business is closing at the end of the month, partly because her location is now a prime piece of property.



"The area is booming so every piece of real estate is prime," Gall said.

Thursday was the last day of production at Spring Cleaners, meanwhile just a few blocks north and new shops are welcoming new customers.

The Royal Rhino Barbershop & Lounge is already buzzing with business.



"Business has been good for a barbershop that just opened five weeks ago," Director of Barbering Phil Wade said.

Surrounded by restaurants and shops in a new plaza, Wade says the hope is to make The Royal Rhino Club a new destination for everyone in Columbus.

"Being right here, in this little area it's amazing because the room we have in the parking lot out back and in the front allows us to plan future things for the community like a block party or farmers market," Wade said.

As the N. 4th Street transformation continues some businesses are excited for what's to come, while others, like Spring Cleaners, wish they could stay.

Spring Cleaners owner Dorothy Gall says preliminarily, the buyer of her building has plans to tear it down and put up new apartments and possibly a store front.