Being located downtown isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, according to the Yelp Downtown Analysis, which was released Tuesday. The business directory and crowdsourced review forum found that prior to the pandemic, from 2017 through 2019, the average yearly business growth was very similar between downtowns and non-downtowns of main metropolitan cities, but…

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