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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. So given there's been talk about this for at leas 20 years I'm not holding my breath.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Howard does have its bookstore on Georgia Avenue and they tried for a hotel and have worked on developing a town center there for a couple decades). Businesses developed out of university-based research. Faculty concentration as talent and an element of community development. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).

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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

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. But even before that I went back and forth on it. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? There just aren't that many jobs.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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Does a Nonprofit “First Look” Program Promote Neighborhood Stabilization? Examining Outcomes for REO Sales in Florida

Center for Community Progress

One estimate suggests that more than 5 million homes that were originally owner-occupied transitioned to rental homes between 2006 and 2017. percent of the REOMatch properties were owner-occupied as of 2018, including 88 percent of the 2014 properties and 77 percent of the 2015 properties. Within these census tracts, 71.3

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before. Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.