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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Michigan’s first land bank was founded in 2002 as the Genesee County Land Reutilization Council (now the Genesee County Land Bank ) by Dan Kildee , who later went on to be one of the cofounders and first president of the Center for Community Progress. What’s next for Michigan land banks? million per year to mow and clean up vacant lots.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

October 24, 2002. Giants fans leave the MUNI headed for the park. The San Francisco Giants play the Anaheim Angels in Games 5 of the World Series at Pac Bell Park in San Francisco, Ca. Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle Streetcar expansion too. The streetcar currently reaches not quite to the edge of the RFK campus.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. WMATA's 2005 study, Development-Related Ridership Survey , found significant car trip reduction associated with the buildings in Metrorail station catchment areas, even in areas outside the core. Also see " The analysis of transit-oriented development (TOD) in Washington, D.C.