Year in review: The top Business Observer headlines of 2024

On a month-by-month basis, Business Observer readers are apparently seeking some R&R. 

Not rest and relaxation. But retail and restaurants. 

News on those two categories showed up in more than half of the Business Observer’s most read stories in 2024. That includes new restaurants and ones that didn’t make it; acquisitions of the real estate occupied by big-box stores and closures of other stores; and, at various places, layoffs. Another big source of readership was development news, especially in residential projects.