Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

The disproportionate impact in Ohio paved the way for Ohio’s General Assembly to pass a comprehensive county land bank statute in 2009. Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. I participated in a workshop on the plaza led by Project for Public Spaces and Scenic America in 2004 ( write up ). We did this in 2008 or 2009. I imagine it was mostly wasted.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The Bok Building served as a model, the former South Philadelphia high school now home to a bounty of small businesses, nonprofits, and artists, attracting people from around the city to the spectacular views of its rooftop bar. Instead, people wanted to open its walls so pedestrians could more easily move between Chinatown and Market East.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

These five elements—artists, place, space, organizations, and businesses—are the components of cultural clusters or cultural quarters. -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 ," 2019 -- " Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration. When it is the Idea Store ,” 2004, Guardian ).

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