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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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. -- " Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus? ," 2024 The thing is to improve cities in the post industrial entertainment city paradigm, you have to do everything you can to attract patrons, and urk, even casinos (" As Bally's troubles mount, City Hall has to make sure casino is a winning bet ," Chicago (..)

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

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The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. You'd think she'd be reticent (" Exclusive: Mayor Bowser says "don't be so down on D.C." The Downtown Public Realm Plan is online now. From DC's Downtown Public Realm Plan.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

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I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005). Especially in secondary and tertiary business districts.

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Community building versus economic development

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The Walking City urban form is the "urban technology" that supports active cities (" Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis" ," " Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving ," 2024).

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

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Office vacancy rates downtown have crept up to a record high of at least 21 percent so far in the first quarter of fiscal 2024, according to data provided by the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID). million for a “dedicated team and marketing efforts to facilitate the transformation of Downtown D.C. into a global learning hub.”.