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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, social media and other consumption has had a lot of impact on the movie industry (" Poor Box Office Sends 100-Year-Old Theater Chain Into Bankruptcy ," Bloomberg). But that chapter is in desperate need of a rewrite. First, e commerce has decimated local retail.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. Do marketing -- harder as local media goes out of business, etc. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time.