Public officials across the country are getting more creative in their strategies to rejuvenate their downtowns five years after the pandemic decimated foot traffic.
By Katie Burke for CoStar News
In San Francisco, leaders and landlords are offering small businesses free rent on retail space. Stakeholders in Birmingham, Alabama, are repositioning vacant offices into new storefronts and restaurants. In Denver, bodegas and banks are replacing offices downtown as city stakeholders hope to transition the retail base from focusing on workers to catering to residents.
City and economic development officials around the United States are looking to their ground floors as a way to fill gaps left behind by the absence of commuting workers.
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