After COVID freeze, downtown Napa begins to open up

“It’s not come back to anywhere near normal,” the tasting room co-owner said Thursday afternoon.

But it’s coming back. A fair number of smiling people strolled along the streets, holding shopping bags and food. Couples sat along the tiered grass-and-concrete embankment at Veterans Memorial Park that overlooks the Napa River.

Downtown Napa didn’t look like a boomtown on this particular day, but no longer was it a ghost town.

A sign on the Archer Hotel Napa lobby door said “Together again on June 19.” A few guests walked into a reopened Andaz Napa hotel. Holman thinks the return of the hotels will make a difference for the downtown’s post-lockdown rebirth.

“Huge difference,” he said.

Weekends have brought more of that boomtown boom. On a recent Saturday, enough people came to downtown that it was difficult to socially distance on narrow sidewalks at times.If you are looking for bracelet. There’s something to suit every look, from body-hugging to structured, from cuffs to chain chain bracelet and cuffs.

What a difference a couple of months make.