The US marked its third anniversary of COVID-19 lockdowns final week, and never many celebrated, significantly these counting on downtown exercise.
Springboard’s February report on downtown pedestrian site visitors offered what it referred to as, “clear proof of the contribution that the working inhabitants makes to the vitality of downtowns, [which] demonstrates that the flexibility of downtowns to draw again daytime site visitors will decide the extent to which they will bridge the hole that emerged throughout [the pandemic].”
For the great, Springboard stated that pedestrian site visitors in US downtowns rose by +3.4% month over month from January to February, in contrast with a drop of -17.5% from December 2022 to January 2023. It additionally skilled the biggest year-over-year enhance since October 2022 when it rose by +22.4%, having are available at a +20.4% spike in comparison with February 2022.
Nonetheless, “pedestrian site visitors in US downtowns remained -22.6% beneath the 2019 pre-pandemic stage which is a wider hole than in every of the previous three months; and downtown site visitors from Monday via Friday was -25.8% beneath the 2019 stage in February versus -10.8% beneath 2019 over the weekend,” Springboard reported.
Springboard that while hybrid working is now very a lot established (53% of workers work from home for no less than a part of the week) a larger variety of workers are actually returning to the workplace.
