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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: WRT "daycare" one rise in PreK education for 3 to 5 year olds in cities like DC and NYC is to address the dearth of quality daycare and the expense. sustainable mobility.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2d 342, 345 (2004); see also Restatement (Second) of Contracts ยง 264 (1981). 2002) (performance excused until it becomes possible to perform rather than excusing performance entirely). [while] [o]ther courts simply conclude that the duty to perform is excused or discharged because performance would violate public policy."

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The other element that was educational for me was the velocity of change resulting from the new station. Plus the economic impact on the other four areas, totaling in the billions of new construction. Velocity of positive economic change from public investment. Granted a lot of development was going on in DC at the time.

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The Social Media President โ€“ @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. including the First Lady, the Vice President, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, Acting Secretary of Education John King and the interweb’s favorite man next door Twitter user, Cory Booker (social justice). First president to deliver the speech in primetime was Lyndon Johnson in 1965.