Now, after these nine and half years I’ve decided it’s the right time for me to step away from GSP to explore new opportunities to grow, learn, and lead, to tackle different challenges, and to find new ways to have direct impact on the issues and communities I care about.
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Amidst all the challenges in our communities, the economy, and the retail marketplace today, actively marketing space aimed at small-scale and emerging retailer entrepreneurs and artisans feels like stepping into a sliver of sunshine.
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The weather driven economic crisis slowly approaching is the reality that our beloved New England autumnal weather is also likely to mark the end of outdoor dining season. And with it the lifeline that thousands of restaurants across Boston have been holding on to in order survive just one more shift, one more week, one more month since May.
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The thrust of this idea is that the City would pay existing license holders a cash for their licenses and in exchange would re-issue a new license that was no-value and non-transferable for a relatively small annual fee.
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In a retail environment that has left so many local businesses districts shrunk down to only restaurants and an occasional service business, JP has held on to a strong diversity of retailers.
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Next to concerns for the well-being of their staff members, the topic of rent payments on retail leases has dominated most of our conversations with both small business owners and our landlord clients alike.
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We decided to put our heads together on a broad set of policy recommendations that local, state, and federal government must act on immediately in order to limit any further harm to small business owners and their workers, and to help get us all back to work as soon as it is safe to do so.
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So, as the realities of COVID-19’s spread throughout the Boston area became clear, Graffito made the call to cancel/postpone all Zone 3 events through the end of March.
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