Business Inventory

In the summer of 2025, the Analytics team ran a pilot project to collect as much data as possible on the City’s storefronts with 3 high school fellows and 2 Analytics team members. We built a survey tool to allow for field data collection, and worked with stakeholders to develop a framework for data collection that would meet their needs. In one summer, we were able to catalog every storefront in downtown Boston, as well as comprehensive data on 3 major commercial corridors in Mattapan, Jamaica Plain, and Allston.

This dataset is the result of our initial data collection effort.