Despite extraordinary challenges, Center City restaurants and retail are showing remarkable resilience. Seventy percent of restaurants in Midtown Village and Rittenhouse Row are serving outdoors, under weather-protected cover. Boarded up storefronts downtown have dramatically declined from almost 300 in the summer to just 27, only 1.6% of all premises in the District. New businesses are opening, behind plywood barriers some remain open for customers, while in others work is underway for new store openings.

For the retail report fact sheet, download- Retail Update: December 2020.
For the full retail report, download- The Restaurant and Retail Sector: Sources of Demand.