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Restore – 49 was a bold initiative launched in March 2020 by merging architecture, art, and community in response to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place ordinance and the uncertainty of a rapid return to “normal” in the Bay Area. Amidst the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses and large retailers alike shuttered throughout the Bay Area, adhering to state mandates to protect employees and consumers while they faced an uncertain economic future. In a matter of weeks, storefronts preemptively were boarded up and secured to prevent looting and theft. With over 120,000 small businesses in San Francisco, this was an enormously consequential change in the urban scenery. With an uncertain timeline for re-opening, many of those storefronts, and as a result, neighborhoods, remained shuttered for months
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