We have embraced the reality that there is no singular solution or approach we can successfully deploy to rebuild our retail leasing, real estate advisory, and marketing practices.
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I’ve been nerding-out this morning looking at Chipotle’s Q3 sales numbers, which came out last week. A couple major takeaways: 1) Q3 digital sales tripled year over year and 2) Digital sales currently account for 50% of Chipotle’s sales.
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Single-page websites are all the rage. There are several platforms like Carrd and bio.fm that allow users to cheaply and effortless create a “website” in a matter of minutes, with only an email address.
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Reading White Fragility woke me to so much that I need to work on, enlightened me to my own blindspots, and has changed the way I understand my own white fragility. In July I bought copies for the whole Graffito team, we all read it, and just today we had a conversation about the book.
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When I told Jesse I was interested in attending more conferences for the sake of being in a similar environment of many, many brilliant people accomplishing great things in their cities and their public spaces, he was supportive of sending me to Greater & Greener 2019, held in Denver.
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A year+ after my return from Remote Year seems like a good time to write my 12th and final blog post about Kyoto, right?
read moreGraffito, as it exists today, remains a work in progress – it will be so forever. But one thing is for sure, it’s become increasingly a team effort.
read moreHere are a few quick thoughts from back in 2010, musing on cupcakes and cupcake shops. Interesting as we continue to think about how trends in food retail come and go.
read moreLast week I presented at a community workshop re: the future of Union Square (Somerville, MA) and shared GSP’s perspective on certain retail & placemaking initiatives and related thoughts that will be at the heart of our work in the neighborhood over the next few years.
read moreDespite not living in BOS full-time anymore I get lots of requests from out-of-town folks visiting the area asking where they should eat/drink.
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