What are the best businesses to open in Teele Square?

The top businesses to open in Teele Square include Filipino Restaurant with a ~82% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~84%, followed by Indonesian Restaurant and Indian Restaurant.

What businesses are most in demand in Teele Square?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Teele Square are Filipino Restaurants, Indonesian Restaurants, and Indian Restaurants.

Business Survivability in Teele Square, Boston

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Teele Square is a Filipino Restaurant with a ~82% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: a Filipino Restaurant in Teele Square (~82% average survival rate, ~84% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #62 across all neighborhoods in and around Boston

Neighborhood average: ~76% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed by Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring — May 2, 2026

In this article:

Summary
Is Teele 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 Teele Square is a Filipino Restaurant with a ~82% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~84% chance; next is an Indonesian Restaurant with a ~82% chance, followed by an Indian Restaurant with a ~82% chance.

Is Teele Square a good place to start a business?

**Pattern match:** Teele Square's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Barney Circle (Washington DC)** and **Highlandtown (Baltimore)**. The three share higher-income, high high-earner share, and low poverty, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Teele Square.

**The pattern in Teele Square.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, Indian Restaurant leads at **82% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **71-88%** (17-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Teele Square and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile Middle Eastern Restaurants are already saturated here — 13 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Teele Square is the #62 most survivable neighborhood for new businesses in and around Boston, with an average score of ~76% across all analyzed categories.

The top business types in Teele Square, when placed at their ideal addresses, achieve survivability rates ~2% above the neighborhood-wide average.
But these same concepts at less optimal addresses within Teele Square can score meaningfully below average. Survivability data shows that even the highest-demand business types fail at the wrong location.
With a 95.6% employment rate, Teele Square has the consumer spending foundation that supports a range of brick-and-mortar business types.

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

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

Using StreetSpring, you can identify the exact address in Teele Square that gives your specific business concept the highest survivability score. The map below shows the highest-scoring storefront area for a Filipino Restaurant in Teele Square per 2026 data:

Walking the neighborhood: what to look for

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Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis of 100 location-specific factors, this area offers the highest projected survivability for a Filipino Restaurant in Teele Square. These rankings are based on the latest available data; check StreetSpring for real-time updates. Factors evaluated include competition at every distance band, consumer spending forecasts, mobility patterns, and market share projections.

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Which business types have the highest survivability in Teele Square?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Teele Square

Filipino Restaurant — ~80%–~84% survivability range, with an average of ~82% across Teele Square.
Opening an Indonesian Restaurant in Teele Square shows ~82% average survivability. Top locations reach ~84%; lower-end sites show ~81%.
Indian Restaurant (Ranked #3): ~82% average in Teele Square. Best-case storefronts: ~84%. Challenging locations: ~80%.
Russian Restaurant is ranked #4 for top businesses to open in Teele Square: ~82% chance on average, best at ~83%, challenging at ~80%.
Pet Store — ~79%–~83% survivability range, with an average of ~81% across Teele Square.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Teele Square

Opening a Pet Grooming Shop in Teele Square shows ~81% average survivability. Top locations reach ~83%; lower-end sites show ~79%.
Pet Boarding Facility (Ranked #7): ~81% average in Teele Square. Best-case storefronts: ~83%. Challenging locations: ~79%.
American Restaurant is ranked #8 for top businesses to open in Teele Square: ~81% chance on average, best at ~82%, challenging at ~79%.
Diner — ~79%–~83% survivability range, with an average of ~81% across Teele Square.
Opening a Sri Lankan Restaurant in Teele Square shows ~81% average survivability. Top locations reach ~83%; lower-end sites show ~79%.

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How much money could a business in Teele Square make?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, following the survivability data rather than relying on intuition or foot traffic estimates in Teele Square could lead to you making ~2% more than if you selected an average location, and ~4% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

However, each business concept should be evaluated for fit within each potential location.
Site selection is the highest-leverage decision most entrepreneurs make — it sets every other variable in motion.
Our data shows that the single highest-impact decision a business owner makes is the address they choose — and Survivability Score is the best guide to that decision.
StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.

Which business types are most underserved in Teele Square?

The top businesses to open next in Teele Square:

Filipino Restaurants — ~82% average survival rate, up to ~84% at best locations
Indonesian Restaurants — ~82% average survival rate
Indian Restaurants — ~82% average survival rate

These rankings are based on the latest available data; check StreetSpring for real-time updates. StreetSpring has analyzed hundreds of thousands of business outcomes across major U.S. metros. The survivability rankings for Teele Square are grounded in real economic conditions: 95.6% employment and 4.8% vacancy are among the key inputs that separate high-scoring locations from low-scoring ones here. Survivability scores are recalculated weekly as new competitors open and spending patterns shift — visit StreetSpring to see the current score for any open location in Teele Square right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, the strongest tenant types for a storefront in Teele Square are Filipino Restaurants, Indonesian Restaurants, and Indian Restaurants.

Site selection is the highest-leverage decision most entrepreneurs make — it sets every other variable in motion.
StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site. StreetSpring can show you which specific address in your portfolio scores highest for each tenant type.

Should you rent your Teele Square storefront to a Filipino Restaurant?

The data shows a Filipino Restaurant is the safest long-term bet for a Teele Square storefront. Top locations reach ~84% survivability; the least favorable addresses in this neighborhood score around ~80%.

StreetSpring generates location-specific predictions tailored to your exact site.

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

The Survivability Score for your specific address in Teele Square is the most reliable signal you have before signing a lease — prioritize it above foot traffic estimates and demographic summaries.

StreetSpring's analysis consistently shows Revenue Capture Score predicts survival odds more accurately than demographic data or foot traffic estimates alone.
Every survivability score is produced by StreetSpring's private prediction engine — not available through any other platform.
StreetSpring's live scoring tool is free: enter any address in Teele Square to see its current Survivability Score for your business type.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring combines proprietary data with advanced analytics to predict which businesses will succeed. Aggregated survivability rankings for Boston are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Permits, licensing, and zoning specifics worth flagging

Area to check	What can go wrong	How to de-risk it
Lease term	Locking into 7-10 years without break clauses, then needing to relocate after year 2.	Negotiate a relocation or termination clause. Confirm assignment + sublease rights are in writing.
Permits & licensing	Assuming a 30-day permit timeline, hitting 90+ days, paying rent on a non-operating storefront.	Call the local zoning office before signing. Confirm your use is already permitted; if not, factor a 2-3 month variance timeline.
Workforce availability	Hiring radius is smaller than you think — many neighborhoods can't staff a full team at standard wages.	Pull BLS wage data for your industry in this metro. Walk through your staffing plan with a local restaurant/retail operator before signing.

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

Dumbbell chart comparing best vs worst locations for businesses in Boston — Best vs worst neighborhood per business type in Boston — the gap shows how much location choice matters for each subtype.

Treemap of Boston business mix by survivability score — Treemap of business mix in Boston — cell size = number of locations, color = average survivability score.

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

How we measure this: Annual rent / estimated annual revenue = rent burden ratio. Industry rule of thumb: above 12% is uncomfortable, above 18% is fatal.

**LEHD demand-pattern signal (Teele Square):** Median 1-mile workplace jobs across Teele Square: **17,275** (LEHD LODES 2022). That works out to a **0.6:1 daytime-to-resident ratio** — a primarily-residential signal with some daytime worker pull. Of those workplace jobs, **1,169** are retail-sector. Use this to gauge whether your concept is weekday-commuter-driven or evening-and-weekend-driven.

Landmark anchor: Clarendon Hill Towers is a registered historical landmark in Teele Square that contributes to the neighborhood's cultural-destination identity.

**Three local anchors for Teele Square:** **4.4%** neighborhood unemployment (below the 24-metro median, ACS), **$1,631/week** average wage in the Boston area (above our metro median, BLS QCEW), and **2,338** new residential units permitted in Suffolk County in 2025 (Census BPS). These three together describe the demand-and-labor environment any new Teele Square business operates within.

**National benchmark:** Per BLS Business Employment Dynamics (March 2025), 5-year survival rates for StreetSpring's tracked industries span **47.8-61.8%**. Restaurants — the most-studied of these — survive at **50.0%** nationally, not the often-cited "80% fail" myth. The real risk premium is at the location level, which is what StreetSpring's model isolates.

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Beyond the Numbers: Local Context

More questions answered with neighborhood-specific data from our 2026 corpus.

Does Teele Square's poverty rate signal lower retail spending?

ACS data shows 8% of Teele Square residents below the federal poverty line, versus 8% metro-wide. The poverty rate tracks the metro median; business-type fit depends more on competition and demographic specifics.

Is Teele Square more a residential or work-destination neighborhood?

Teele Square's median commute (~34 min) is above the Boston metro median (32 min). Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.

What survival rates does the federal government track for small businesses?

BLS publishes 5-year cohort survival rates by industry. For sectors StreetSpring covers, the range is 47.8-61.8% — Active Life low, Health & Medical high, Restaurants and Retail in the middle around 47.9-50%. Location-specific factors drive most of the variance around these baselines.