As shops board up to protect against looting, business booms for some

Dawid Jackowski
Photo credit Andrew Kramer/KYW Newsradio
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — All across Philadelphia, it's impossible to miss all the businesses that are boarded up to keep looters out. Some companies are benefiting from this.

In the city's Northeast, Dawid Jackowski spoke to KYW Newsradio after the weekend riots. 

He was drilling screws into sheets of plywood to cover up the windows of a store near Philadelphia Mills Mall. It's not his store. His maintenance company was hired to do this work.

"Our company got about 40 stores to board up, all the way from Bensalem to Springfield through Center City," he said. "Yeah, we’re staying pretty busy."

"The coronavirus hit us, so we were out of business. Me personally, I wasn’t working for quite some time. Today is my first day back on the job."

He says the store he was working on is about a four-hour job, but other stores can be completed in about an hour.