In the Marewa suburb of Napier, a nine-month infrastructure project has quietly dismantled what a family spent years building. Hetal Shastri, owner of the League Park Superette, has sold his cars, fallen behind on his lease, and now faces bankruptcy — not through mismanagement, but through proximity to a road closure that outlasted his reserves. His story sits within a familiar tension of modern civic life: the long-term good of infrastructure improvement colliding with the immediate fragility of small enterprise, raising the enduring question of who bears the cost when progress takes longer t
Napier superette owner faces bankruptcy after nine months of roadworks
Small business owner faces potential bankruptcy and family financial stress; two neighboring businesses also experiencing severe income losses threatening their viability.