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During the pandemic, though, businesses’ needs were more apparent than ever.  “After the world changed in March, we knew that regardless of what the 2020 vacancy rate would tell us, that special interventions and extraordinary measures would be needed to be taken to help our Brookline businesses survive and recover from the unprecedented toll of the pandemic,” Brewton said. With that in mind, Brookline’s economic development team was surprised the vacancy rate wasn’t higher, Mooney said.  However, she predicted a higher number of business closures in the first half of 2021. By late spring or early summer, the town expects to conduct another vacancy survey, by which point the rate will be a more accurate reflection of the pandemic’s impact on local businesses, Mooney explained. 

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