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2 May 2017

How Amazon’s ‘invisible’ hand can shape your city

by Nick Stumo-Langer | Date: 2 May 2017 | posted in: Media Coverage, Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

ILSR is featured in this story from Curbed on Amazon and the way that it impacts on independent businesses, local economies, and the way that our economy works. In this story, Patrick Sisson cites our policy researcher, Olivia LaVecchia.… Read More

Curbed, Olivia Lavecchia, press
20 Oct 2016

How Can Cities Save their Small Businesses?

by Nick Stumo-Langer | Date: 20 Oct 2016 | posted in: Media Coverage, Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Commercial rents have been rising, and pricing independent retailers out of neighborhoods, for a number of years now. Patrick Sisson of Curbed reached out to report co-author and ILSR research associate Olivia LaVecchia to discuss these trends.… Read More

Curbed, independent business, Olivia Lavecchia, press

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