Ten years ago this week, Rebecca Buonadonna was one of the few people interested in opening a new store in downtown Rutland.
Downtown would fill up to where the ground floors had a better than 95% occupancy rate, then suddenly empty out again, partially because of the retirements of a lot of longer-running business owners. Buonadonna and others are emerging as a new generation of established downtown business-owners who say they are excited about the future as the state prepares to reopen from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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