'Like Christmas Day' As SoWa Market Reopens After COVID Closures A customer looks through records at Cosmic Unicornz, one of many shops open to the public now at SoWa Open Market, which reopened to the public after pandemic-related closures. May 2, 2021 Tori Bedford / GBH News When the coronavirus pandemic shut down the city, Larissa Callahan had to completely reimagine her business. âItâs been a lot of just being creative really quickly, because I didn't know how to run a business during a pandemic," Callahan said. "Like nobody knew what to do. So this has been quite the whirlwind of a year.â