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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

17-17 Troutman Street, Queens, former textile factory, 90 studios 64 Fulton Street, Financial District, Manhattan, mix of religious and nonprofit organizations and 20 studios Equinox Studios, Seattle. He can afford it. They can't. Mycella Collective.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. The building is now an asset the nonprofit can leverage, unlike cash.

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

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The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So cities have been relying on nonprofit entities--business improvement districts, parks conservancies, etc., Flower chair, Street Furniture Australia. This is going to require much more serious and ongoing public space management, which cities tend to lack the agility and funding for. to provide this kind of service.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs. And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.