Cities are changing to become increasingly inhospitable to locally owned businesses. In this video, Olivia LaVecchia discusses six policy strategies for cities.
Amazon's been expanding its infrastructure at a breakneck pace. In order to better visualize the company's expansion in the U.S., we've mapped it.
At a recent New York City Council hearing, ILSR submitted testimony examining the importance of locally owned businesses to the City.
Stacy Mitchell and other leaders discuss how local businesses and activists across the country are working to change the rules to instead support community enterprises
As the cost of leasing commercial space soars in U.S. cities, this report examines what's behind the skyrocketing rents and explores six possible policy solutions.
A new ILSR report finds that the cost of leasing commercial space is soaring in many cities, threatening the future of independent businesses.
Stacy Mitchell spoke about a strategy to rein in Amazon's expanding market power in this presentation at the 2016 American Booksellers Association Winter Institute.
We look at both the bad and the good fallout from Walmart’s closing of 269 stores.
Having used its supercenters to capture one-quarter of U.S. grocery sales, Walmart is building a new wave of smaller stores that are poised to clean...
The political interests of labor and small business are often seen as pitted against each other — a perception corporate lobbyists work hard to perpetuate....
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has presented its 2005 Main Street Civic Leadership Award to the New Rules Project, a program of the Institute...