Economic Resiliency through Mechanism Design and Secure Computing: MainStreetPulse: An Early Warning Platform for Monitoring and Supporting Main Street Businesses

Boston University and the City of Boston are working with the City’s Main Street Directors and stakeholders to design an approach to data collection that will enable the City to better time policy interventions to support struggling Main Street businesses. This project will identify mechanisms to access and leverage open and private data inputs to predict the distress or closure of small businesses and improve planning for Main Street Districts.