While Venezuela's crisis and Middle East tensions redirect travel patterns, São Paulo's hotel and restaurant sectors scramble to adapt to a fundamentally reshaped visitor economy.
While geopolitical friction disrupts traditional trade routes, Brazilian software firms and manufacturers in Pinheiros and Vila Mariana are capitalizing on a sudden shift in international sourcing.
A new generation of independent designers in Vila Madalena and Bom Retiro is challenging the city's traditional fashion hierarchy with bold experimentation and sustainable practices.
From intimate samba clubs in Vila Madalena to cutting-edge electronic venues in Pinheiros, here's where to catch the city's best live entertainment this season.
New municipal data shows the average rent in Vila Mariana has tripled since 2020, while peripheral zones struggle with infrastructure investment that hasn't kept pace with population growth.
Rapid expansion of startup hubs in Vila Madalena and Zona Leste is driving wage competition and forcing established corporations to rethink retention strategies.
From Pinheiros to Vila Mariana, restaurant owners and hoteliers grapple with labour shortages, energy spikes, and a middle class pulling back on discretionary spending.
New municipal data exposes the scale of the challenge facing Brazil's largest metropolis as planners grapple with affordability, density, and infrastructure.
As violence surges across the capital's periphery, top brass break silence on resource shortages, gang activity and the limits of current emergency response systems.
Marina Oliveira's seven-year journey from a cramped workspace to a thriving manufacturing operation reflects the resilience driving São Paulo's small business renaissance.
Major sustainability announcements reshape the city's climate strategy as a pioneering transport facility opens and leading companies pledge emissions cuts.
As vacancy rates plummet across the city's most desirable neighbourhoods, a new class of micro-investors is capitalizing on the gap between supply and demand.
As the Associação Vila Madalena debates whether to relocate or expand its 40-year-old hub, neighbourhood groups must decide what kind of cultural space their rapidly changing district needs.
