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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Events DC is a DC government instrumentality. -- board of directors -- staff Technically it's independent of the city government, but its top officer and board members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council. If no deal is reached, the dispute could threaten games, concerts and other events scheduled to be held at the ballpark.

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How Phoenix Is Honoring the Life of Lori Piestewa — July Bonus Episode

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

As we officially begin our Park and Recreation Month celebrations with the July issue of Parks & Recreation magazine, I’m thrilled to be joined on today’s bonus episode by a few of the people involved with the event highlighted in this month’s cover story.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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., Characteristics of cultural quarters From Montgomery (2003).

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters ," Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4). 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. Although that's not what the festival is doing, at least initially.)