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Community building versus economic development

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An art gallery type building won't have near the economic return as a sports arena, provided it is super well planned. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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I've written a bunch of articles on music as an element of the local arts ecosystem: -- " Ground up (guerrilla) art #2: community halls and music (among other things) ," 2011 -- " Under threat: Austin's music industry as an element of the city's cultural ecosystem and economy ," 2016 -- " Leveraging music for cultural and economic development: part (..)

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Camden Yards baseball stadium is 30 years old

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Camden Yards in 2003. The Ringer has an excellent article, " The Baseball Stadium That “Forever Changed” Professional Sports ," assessing the contribution of Camden Yards--a throwback designed baseball stadium which opened in 1992--to baseball, other professional sports, and cities. Getty Images photo.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

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2003 ( Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania ), and it mentioning how so many of the micro jurisdictions across the state including in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is, lacked the financial capacity to serve their residents. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021).

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

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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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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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1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., The city did a plan for the area around 2003. DC is another good example in a different way.

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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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The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.