Reporting at the scale of a town or district, where one employer can determine a tax base, a school budget and a housing market. Coverage follows arrivals, closures, incentive deals and the years afterward. Read by local officials, economic development staff, planners and residents facing similar decisions.
Town and neighborhood reporting on local economies: an employer arriving or leaving, the tax base that follows it, and what a municipal budget can absorb.
More than 200 US counties now have no local news outlet at all, and the counties losing newsrooms are disproportionately poorer and older — a documented market failure with civic bills that arrive later.
Hana Kimura
As Amazon, JPMorgan and a wave of other employers end hybrid work, the coffee shops, lunch counters and dry cleaners ringing their office towers are the first to feel the difference.
Hana Kimura
Hundreds of empty superstores litter the American landscape, and the documented reuse record shows what towns did with a hundred thousand square feet they never asked for.
Hana Kimura
Immigrants open businesses at higher rates than the U.S.-born, and the documented geography of that entrepreneurship is the corner store in the recovering town.
Hana Kimura