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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Instead, he emboldened the hospital's board to break away from the chain in 2009 and become independent. Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it. Despite that commercial insurance covers fewer than 1 percent of its patients, St. Anthony has posted operating income nearly every year since.

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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 Urban Agenda calls for the unprecedented alignment of the entire agency by linking the work of national parks and programs to advance conservation, education, recreation, and economic development in urban areas. Economic development. Admission to Longwood Gardens --incredibly beautiful--is $25. is necessary.