I’ve lived in my parents’ apartment since I was one year old. My community has been surrounding me for 19 years and I can remember stores like yarn stores shutting down and home appliance stores opening. I watched the Barclays Center get built day in and day out, due to the Barclays Center opening real estate in the area rose. Caused small business stores to shut down, and after covid brand business stores like models and many others shut down as well. Although there were many businesses that remained, which made me ecstatic.

So what makes up a community? People contributing to each other creating relationships. It’s always great to be able to ask for help within your community and get the help back. When we help small businesses succeed we stop larger businesses from buying out the space and further hurting our real estate so that people like me that lived in their loved area won’t have to get kicked out to a smaller more violent and unsafe area. When are small businesses are doing well they are sure to think and thank the community that helped them strive. Do to others what you would want done to you.

Source used : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/business/smallbusiness/how-to-support-small-businesses.html