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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The problem is that even though we talk about restaurant or sports events patrons (like attendees of baseball games) also spending money on retail as part of their trips, increasingly people aren't interested in doing so. see It's Hardly Sportin' ). Note that last weekend was Celebrate Petworth, the annual community festival.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

A study of the Great Recession’s impact in the United States found that “in 2007, the birth rate was 69.1 The article contributes to the line of research on recessions and birth rates by constructing a novel dataset of 150 countries and using an event study analysis to explore how fertility rates are impacted by the trough of recessions.

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Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job in Parks & Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. My fingers are in quotes here because we know it’s not normal, but they’re trying to make programs and events and things feel special. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. Marissa: Yes, definitely.

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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. According to Drug Store News (" CVS Health debuts first Health Hub Location "): During a ribbon-cutting event at the company's HealthHUB location at 687 Johnson Ferry Rd. CVS Health Hub concept. in Marietta, Ga.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. Michael Patrick McGinn was elected the 52nd mayor of Seattle in November of 2009. Located in Maryland, he has lived there his whole life before being elected mayor in 2009. He works in the town of Cooper City, Florida and was elected in 2007. Mayor Slay. Our Next Mayor.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Personally, I think an arena is probably an acceptable choice, especially as it likely will increase transit ridership to events--the team estimates that the 70% of trips to the current arena will drop to 40%, with the much better transit location of Market East. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

She completed her second mission in 2007, as the first female commander of the International Space Station, on Expedition 16. She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012.