Main Street Growing Faster than the U.S. GDP

That’s the finding reported in The Store Front Business Index. Store Fronts include 3.8 million businesses (about 37% of all small and mid-sized businesses). Compounded annual growth rates in real terms between Q2 2014 and Q2 2015 was 3.1%, which outpaced real GDP growth of 2.7%. Specific improvement was driven regionally by 4.1% and 4.0% gains in the Southwest and Mountain areas, respectively.