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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In turn that would help to spur development of the Pepco power plant site, which stopped producing electricity in 2012, and Benning Road further east, and Minnesota Avenue. October 24, 2002. Other areas too.) Giants fans leave the MUNI headed for the park. Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle Streetcar expansion too.

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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!: Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Baltimore Regional Transit Expansion Map, 2002. The seven proposed “alternatives” were identified in a feasibility study completed in 2021. I didn't mention a southern extension to Columbia, because the memo was about Baltimore County, but that was implied.