10.27.20-New-Retail-Ortiz

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  For those in the public and nonprofit sectors, the coming months and years will see many challenges that will impact our retail-driven environments, including continued social distancing, budget shortfalls, and hybrid work from home options that will upend the connections that many once had to their central business districts. Place-based organizations, including City agencies, BIDs and Main Street organizations, simply don't have the option of walking away from the communities they serve. Even under challenging conditions, the public and nonprofit sectors must continue to find ways to help businesses and communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. As we consider the rapidly changing retail landscape, how should our public sector partners, whose policies and regulations have a significant impact on retail environments, respond? What role will they have in reinventing the retail experience in partnership with property and business owners?

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