Centre for an Urban Future presents ideas and insights on how policymakers can help sustain restaurants and other small businesses through the colder months.

This report features their ideas. It includes creative policy recommendations from more than twenty experts. They received more than 40 concrete ideas grouped into five main areas;

• Design, build, and install winterized outdoor space for restaurants and retailers
• Rethink rules, regulations, and permitting around sidewalks, streets, and public space.
• Enlist New York business, design, and tech talent to help small businesses
• Provide microgrants and technical assistance to aid the transition to pop-up, online, and outdoor operations
• Tap vacant storefronts for land swaps, pop-ups, social infrastructure, and more