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Camden Yards baseball stadium is 30 years old

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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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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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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Ironically, one of my early issues was overconcentration of liquor stores on H Street--I was even featured in a Post article about it in 2003. That certainly seems like an overconcentration. Then it was about loitering, littering and crime.

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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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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.

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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

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.