MA Phase 2: Reopening Businesses, Services List

MASSACHUSETTS — Phase two of the state's reopening plan will begin Monday, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Saturday. The phase will open in two parts — the first begins immediately and the second begins at date to be determined as public health data becomes available.

Most of phase two's reopenings will come in part one. Retail stores, malls, outdoor dining, child care and other industries will be allowed to get back to business, all with varying levels of restrictions.

Indoor eating and some personal services, such as nail salons and tattoo parlors, will reopen in part two.

Phase three will begin June 29 at the earliest.

Below is a list of everything reopening in phase two, according to Baker's executive order:

• Retail stores, including stores enclosed in shopping malls
• Restaurants providing seated food service prepared on-site and under retail food permits issued by municipal authorities, including beer gardens, wineries and distilleries meeting these criteria
  • Step 1: Outdoor dining
  • Step 2: Indoor dining
• Hotels, motels, inns and other short-term lodgings — no events, functions or meetings
• Limited organized youth and adult amateur sports activities and programs — no contact and no games or scrimmages, and indoor facilities limited to youth programs
• Professional sports practice and training programs — no inter-team games and no admission for the public
• Personal services provided a fixed place of business or at a client location
  • Step 1: Services involving no close personal contact (photography, window washers, individual tutoring, home cleaning, etc.)
  • Step 2: Services involving close personal contact (massage, nail salons, personal training for individuals or no more than 2 persons from the same household, etc.)

• Non-athletic instructional classes in arts, education and life skills for youths under 18 in groups of fewer than 10
• Driving schools and flight schools
• Outdoor historical space — no functions or gatherings and no guided tours
• Funeral homes — increased capacity to permit 40 percent occupancy for one service at a time within the facility
• Warehouses and distribution centers
• Golf facilities, including outdoor driving ranges
• Other outdoor recreational facilities
  • Pools, playgrounds and spray decks
  • Mini golf, go karts, batting cages, climbing walls and rope courses

• Post-secondary, higher education, vocational-technical, trade and occupational schools
  • For the limited purposes of permitting students to complete a degree, program, or prerequisite for employment, or other similar requirement for completion; for summer youth programming including athletic facilities; and any necessary supporting services

• Day camps, including sports and arts camps
• Public libraries