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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2003, Franklin Raines, the highly visible CEO of Fannie Mae at the time, received compensation of $17.1 Any contact between F&F and elected officials is strictly controlled by the FHFA. 24 Excessive executive compensation. Political is out, commercial is in. CEO compensation at public-private hybrid levels.

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