Retail rents are back above pre-pandemic levels, though business hasn’t come back for everyone. Walk down Boylston Street, and you may think the shuttered storefronts stretching from the Pour House Bar & Grill to the former Lord & Taylor portend a thoroughfare in trouble. Gone, too, are Crate & Barrel, The Tannery, Max Brenner’s. “For […]

Legions of Boston’s office workers left town when the pandemic broke out. When they return, they’ll find its streetscapes profoundly transformed. Wander the city’s corridors of commerce and you’ll witness darkened storefronts and shuttered restaurants. These are the casualties of a pandemic that has hit the retail world unevenly. A tour of the region’s shopping […]