License to Succeed

So we decided to do something about it. Drawing on our team’s expertise in ethnographic and technical research, data processing, deep community relationships, and visual storytelling we gathered information from all over and published a report entitled  License to Succeed. We hope it enables and empowers our lawmakers to make informed decisions that will positively impact the City of Boston.

The Boston Globe has written about our work:

• Who wins and who loses when a liquor license in Boston sells for $600,000

• In the Seaport, a glut of liquor licenses reflects the rise of chains and continued inequities

• The whiter the Boston neighborhood, the easier it can be to find a restaurant with a license to serve booze, report show

• Boston goes begging on Beacon Hill for more liquor licenses