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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I like the idea of ten year terms to be able to "force" transportation demand management agreements on teams (" Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities "). But that only works if the facility is owned by the team.

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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Creating a media production community. As pointed out in the Post article, if you want to develop a functioning if not thriving film community, you need to support its development, and a film festival is an element that does. Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters ," Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4).

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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 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.

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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.