“Nobody enjoys sitting on a stoop or looking out a window at an empty street."
It’s an understatement to say that the recovery of America’s downtowns after COVID has been uneven. Newly released research tracked mobility data for 66 U.S. and Canadian metros between March and June 2023, benchmarking foot traffic against the same period in 2019. The mean recovery rate is 76% but the spread is what’s telling: Las Vegas recovered to 102%, while St. Louis sat at 53%. This wide dispersion signals that urban recovery is now shaped by structural, not cyclical, forces. And now we’re starting to learn what’s behind the uneven rebounds.1
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