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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Benning Road, the extension of H Street is in the upper portion of image. It mentioned how the RFK campus planning effort by Events DC did mention an arena, but the point never got much play.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 Part 1 of this two-part paper describes this more fully.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014). The city did a plan for the area around 2003.