What businesses are most in demand in Assembly Square?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Assembly Square are Dance Clubs, Pet Grooming Shops, and Italian Restaurants.

What are the best businesses to open in Assembly Square?

The top businesses to open in Assembly Square include Dance Club with a ~83% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~84%, followed by Pet Grooming Shop and Italian Restaurant.

Is Assembly Square a good place to start a business?

Assembly Square is ranked number 26 across neighborhoods in and around Boston to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~77%. The survivability gap between the best and average addresses in Assembly Square reaches ~2% for the strongest-performing business categories.

How much money could a business in Assembly Square make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Assembly Square could lead to making ~2% more than selecting an average location, and ~5% more than one of the worst locations.

How can you find the best location to open a business in Assembly Square?

StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes 100 factors across competition, spending on the specific potential business, projected revenue, projected market share, Revenue Capture Score, and mobility patterns to pinpoint which blocks in Assembly Square maximize success.

Business Survivability in Assembly Square, Boston

Name: Assembly Square (Boston) Business Type Survivability Rankings 2026
Creator: StreetSpring
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Assembly Square is a Dance Club with a ~83% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•14 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Dance Club in Assembly Square (~83% average survival rate, ~84% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #26 across all neighborhoods in and around Boston

Neighborhood average: ~77% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed: May 5, 2026 by Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

In this article:

Summary
Is Assembly Square a good place to start a business?
How to find the best location
Best businesses to open
How much money could a business make?
What businesses should open next?
Frequently Asked Questions

Summary

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Assembly Square is a Dance Club with a ~83% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~84% chance; next is a Pet Grooming Shop with a ~82% chance, followed by an Italian Restaurant with a ~82% chance.

Should you open a business in Assembly Square?

Assembly Square earns the #26 spot in Boston for new business survivability, with an average score of ~77% across all business types analyzed.

The survivability gap between the best and average addresses in Assembly Square reaches ~2% for the strongest-performing business categories.
Even so, the weakest addresses in Assembly Square for those same business types can underperform considerably. StreetSpring's address-level scoring exists precisely to identify which specific storefronts make the difference.
At 96.0% employed, Assembly Square's consumer base has the spending capacity that makes the neighborhood viable for a wide range of business types — though location selection within the neighborhood still determines actual survivability.

Employment and vacancy figures sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.

Which blocks in Assembly Square offer the strongest survivability?

Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Assembly Square that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, this is the optimal address for a Dance Club in Assembly Square:

Why the right block matters more than the right neighborhood

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Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis of 100 location-specific factors, this area offers the highest projected survivability for a Dance Club in Assembly Square. StreetSpring's survivability scores are updated regularly, so the most accurate prediction for your exact storefront is always available in the live tool. Factors evaluated include competition at every distance band, consumer spending forecasts, mobility patterns, and market share projections.

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The strongest business categories for Assembly Square

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Assembly Square

Dance Club (Ranked #1): ~83% average in Assembly Square. Best-case storefronts: ~84%. Challenging locations: ~80%.
Pet Grooming Shop is ranked #2 for top businesses to open in Assembly Square: ~82% chance on average, best at ~84%, challenging at ~80%.
Italian Restaurant — ~81%–~84% survivability range, with an average of ~82% across Assembly Square.
Opening a Hot Pot Restaurant in Assembly Square shows ~82% average survivability. Top locations reach ~84%; lower-end sites show ~80%.
South American Restaurant (Ranked #5): ~82% average in Assembly Square. Best-case storefronts: ~84%. Challenging locations: ~80%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Assembly Square

Filipino Restaurant is ranked #6 for top businesses to open in Assembly Square: ~82% chance on average, best at ~83%, challenging at ~80%.
Watch Store or Repair Shop — ~79%–~84% survivability range, with an average of ~82% across Assembly Square.
Opening a Pet Store in Assembly Square shows ~82% average survivability. Top locations reach ~83%; lower-end sites show ~79%.
Salad Shop (Ranked #9): ~82% average in Assembly Square. Best-case storefronts: ~83%. Challenging locations: ~79%.
Taiwanese Restaurant is ranked #10 for top businesses to open in Assembly Square: ~81% chance on average, best at ~83%, challenging at ~80%.

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What revenue can a Assembly Square business expect?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, prioritizing survivability score in your site-selection process in Assembly Square could lead to you making ~2% more than if you selected an average location, and ~5% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

Even within a high-performing neighborhood, the best location varies by business type — StreetSpring scores each combination separately.
A great product in the wrong location will underperform; an average product in the right location can thrive.
StreetSpring's analysis shows that businesses in top-scoring locations generate meaningfully more revenue and stay open longer than those in average locations.
No other tool calculates survivability at the storefront level across 700+ business types the way StreetSpring does.

Which business types are most underserved in Assembly Square?

The top businesses to open next in Assembly Square:

Dance Clubs — ~83% average survival rate, up to ~84% at best locations
Pet Grooming Shops — ~82% average survival rate
Italian Restaurants — ~82% average survival rate

StreetSpring's survivability scores are updated regularly, so the most accurate prediction for your exact storefront is always available in the live tool. StreetSpring's training dataset includes millions of transactions and business lifecycle events. Assembly Square's employment rate (96.0%) and vacancy rate (2.0%) together define the economic context that StreetSpring's model uses to score survivability for each business type at each address. StreetSpring updates survivability scores for available locations weekly — check the live tool now to see which storefronts in Assembly Square are currently available and how they score.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Assembly Square.

What type of business should you rent your Assembly Square storefront to?

The analysis is clear: in Assembly Square, Dance Clubs, Pet Grooming Shops, and Italian Restaurants consistently score highest on survivability, giving landlords the best chance of retaining tenants for 2+ years.

A great product in the wrong location will underperform; an average product in the right location can thrive.
No other tool calculates survivability at the storefront level across 700+ business types the way StreetSpring does. Rather than guessing which tenant type will last, landlords can verify survivability for each category at their exact address using StreetSpring.

Should you rent your Assembly Square storefront to a Dance Club?

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis strongly supports renting to a Dance Club in Assembly Square: best-in-class addresses achieve ~84% survivability, and even the lower-end sites come in at ~80% — above average for most business types.

No other tool calculates survivability at the storefront level across 700+ business types the way StreetSpring does.

What should I consider when opening a business in Assembly Square?

In Assembly Square, the single most important factor in your site-selection decision is the Survivability Score of the specific address you're evaluating.

Revenue Capture Score is the single best indicator of whether a business will thrive at a location.
StreetSpring's proprietary algorithms power these predictions.
StreetSpring offers free access to its survivability scores — see how your shortlisted Assembly Square addresses rank right now.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring analyzes millions of data points with AI to forecast business survivability. Aggregated survivability rankings for Boston are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

The hidden costs of operating in this neighborhood

Area to check	What can go wrong	How to de-risk it
Build-out budget	Underestimating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing — the "hidden" 30-50% of build-out cost.	Get 3 quotes from licensed contractors and pad budget by +20% for surprises. Confirm landlord TI allowance in writing.
CAM + hidden costs	Stated rent looks great, then CAM fees, signage charges, and after-hours utilities add 15-30%.	Get the full operating expense breakdown for the past 2 years. Ask which costs are landlord-capped vs. uncapped.
Outdoor seating / sidewalk use	Signing assuming you can add patio seating, then learning the city requires a separate sidewalk-cafe permit with long lead times.	Check the city's sidewalk-cafe permit process up front. Confirm landlord allows outdoor build-out in the lease language.

Full dataset for Boston: /resources/data/boston-survivability-scores-2026.csv — includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Visual Data

Radar chart of business-subtype survivability in Assembly Square, Boston — Top business types scored in Assembly Square, Boston — each axis is a subtype, taller = stronger survival rate.

Bubble chart of business subtypes in Boston by survivability score and location density — Every business subtype in Boston plotted by score vs location count — bubble size shows market depth.

How we measure this: Our gradient-boosted survivability model has 100+ input features. The waterfall shows the top 6-8 contributors to a final score.

**Sector-level context:** BLS data (BLS Business Employment Dynamics, March 2025 release) shows 5-year survival rates of **47.8%** (Active Life), **47.9%** (Retail Trade), **50.0%** (Restaurants), **50.5%** (Beauty & Personal Care), and **61.8%** (Health & Medical) — the five industry buckets covering most StreetSpring subtypes. Location-specific factors explain the rest of the variance.

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