Economic Development References & Resources

References & Resources

• How Cities Can Save Small Shops by Karen Loew, CityLab, July 24, 2017
• New York City Community Board 3 (PDF), Q&A on small business development, request for changes in laws to be more small business friendly
• Small Business, Big Impact: Expanding opportunity for Manhattan's storefronts (PDF), March 2015
• Vacant New York, Mapping Manhattan's Shuttered Storefronts
• Why Are There So Many Shuttered Storefronts in the West Village?,Tim Wu, The New Yorker, May 24, 2015

San Francisco

• Commission Guide for Formula Retail (PDF), Determining Locational Appropriateness and Performance-based Design Guidelines, July 2014
• San Francisco Chain Stores (Formula Retail Use)
• San Francisco Formula Retail Economic Analysis (PDF), June 2014

Examples of Local Ordinances to Support Local Business Development

• Chain Store Taxation: Established before the Great Depression (PDF)
• Fort Collins (Development Moratoria)
• Jersey City (Restricting Formula Businesses)
• Palm Beach
• Phoenix
• Seattle: Legacy Business Study (includes small business issues in the same category as Legacy businesses)
• San Francisco

Institute for Local Self Reliance

• Affordable Space: How Rising Commercial Rents Are Threatening Independent Businesses, and What Cities Are Doing About It (PDF), Executive Summary
• Affordable Space: How Rising Commercial Rents Are Threatening Independent Businesses, and What Cities Are Doing About It, Article
• Affordable Space: How Rising Commercial Rents Are Threatening Independent Businesses, and What Cities Are Doing About It (PDF), Full Report

Retail Solutions & Ideas

• San Francisco-and Sean Penn- Show a City's Heritage Bars Are Worth Saving, by Brittany Shoot, The Guardian, June 11, 2014
• The Small Business Spring of 2015, by Karen Loew, The Blog of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, April 1, 2015
• New Chapter for Classic Paris Bookstore: Books Printed on Demand,by Ciara Nugent, New York Times, June 12, 2016
• How to Survive a Retail Meltdown, by Nolan Gray, CityLab, April 20, 2017