Our Updated 2019 Business Counter

To follow-up on our 2019 Business Counter post we did a couple weeks back, looks like we missed a couple closings:

• 14 Parish (2223 S. Michigan) 
• White House Black Market (1112 S. Delano Ct)

This means that our current tally has the Sloop gaining 5 new retail/restaurant businesses in 2019 (so far).  It also means that it's lowest net number since we started tracking this back in 2012:

Is this a trend (by definition it seems to be)?  We still have a month to go and will continue to monitor.