City Stages can’t afford to pay their venders. So locally owned businesses like the Bottle Tree Café are having financial problems. Merrilee Challiss, the owner of the Bottle Tree, says she was paid for the food cost, but not for the hours her employees worked at City Stages. Meaning she now has to come up with around 15 thousand dollars to pay her employees. For more information on City Stages Debt, click on the video link.