Business View Civil and Municipal | September 2022

125 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 9 DRACUT , MASSACHUSETTS shopping that way. So if I can provide a list of each different industry in town and let people go from there, that’s my goal.” So far, the town’s businesses are thriving, with new businesses opening all the time. “I was talking to someone from another town’s economic development committee about some of the businesses that have been opening in Dracut and she was surprised that so many businesses are opening and that they are small businesses,” Phelps recounts. “But any business is a business and we’ve had several restaurants opening, we’ve had an art studio that just opened recently. We have our fourth and final cannabis retail store that just opened. We had a clothing boutique open a few months ago, a couple of nutritional drink companies opened, and a hot sauce manufacturing company.” The Town of Dracut has eased the way for local businesses to find success by implementing bylaws that would allow businesses to operate inside residential homes, as long as they have no Dracut takes care of its pets with about a dozen stores and animal-care facilities in town, including The Dapper Dog