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A tale of three supermarket companies and innovation: Kroger; Safeway; Albertsons

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And earlier than some of their competitors, they began opening new stores in center cities, starting with Portland in 2003. Plus, their loyalty program and coupon doubling (they probably don't do that now). Petworth, DC.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's definitely a real estate play. 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. So it depends.

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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)

Together, parts 1 and 2 of the analysis are essential to understand the FHFA Report and how its proposed reforms are most definitely needed. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 19 That was a very significant amount 20 years ago. billion for fiscal 2024. See [link]. [25] billion).

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Fostering Financial Literacy in New York State: How's It Going?

Barrett & Greene

New Yorkers’ per capita student loan debt of $6,180 was 11th in the nation in 2021 and marks an increase of 335% since 2003. While mortgages comprise the largest portion of this debt, my report found that New Yorkers’ student loan and credit card debt per capita were well above the national average. ​.

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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

But the city has never developed the capacity to be particularly good at that, and definitely the energy to revitalize the communities in the Anacostia River community has been moribund ever since, which has been about 15 years. The city did a plan for the area around 2003. What a waste.

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The academic literature has tended to not differentiate between hard and soft infrastructure, but instead focuses on the definition of types of facilities, focusing on differences in type of space and programming. Develop programs focusing not just on presentation or consumption of the arts, but arts production too.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social Media Definitions. By being able to connect with each other and share the stories and accounts, citizen journalists are learning that “the ‘sphere of legitimate debate” as defined by journalists doesn’t match up with their own definition” (Rosen, 2009). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Bennett, C.W.