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.
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 · August 12, 2026
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 · July 27, 2026
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 · July 5, 2026
A third of American newspapers have closed since 2005, and the research documents what counties lose besides coverage: civic information, cheaper borrowing, and honest government.
Hana Kimura · June 12, 2026
Credit unions and CDFIs hold a small share of U.S. assets but a documented outsized share of the lending banks decline, from used cars to small-business survival.
Hana Kimura · May 20, 2026