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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

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The problem is that even though we talk about restaurant or sports events patrons (like attendees of baseball games) also spending money on retail as part of their trips, increasingly people aren't interested in doing so. I suggested something like this to the DC Main Street program in 2003, but it was too ambitious for them to understand.)

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption."

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

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This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events. It mentioned how the RFK campus planning effort by Events DC did mention an arena, but the point never got much play. Events DC didn't really do a plan, more a vision.

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Relearning old lessons: Urban economics, agglomeration economies, and adaptive reuse of "a large stock of old buildings"

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Attendance at Thursday night programs and networking events at Venture Care have drawn an average of 419 people this fall, up from353 in 2019. The lesson is that in these districts especially the smaller ones, you need to work to build the systems, events, restaurants, etc., that help spark serendipitous encounters.

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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

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The city did a plan for the area around 2003. 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). commitment and time.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

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Washington Post , July 13, 2003. There would be plenty of benefits for DC, discussed here, "" If DC had visionary elected officials and planners it could use the new WMATA "BOS" study to push through the development of a separated Silver Line in DC (and Northern Virginia) ," 2019). Extending the Yellow Line south on Rte.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points.