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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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The Post reports, " DC Health moves to Anacostia with high hopes for community impact ," about a new revitalization effort by the city, bringing the Department of Health and its 600 employees to Anacostia.

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Purple Line Corridor Coalition study: Same Old, Same Old | Gentrification will result from investment in transit infrastructure

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This is in response to this Washington Post article, " Purple Line study: Without help, light-rail line will bring gentrification." Poster board from the 2014 meetings. Communities most at risk include Long Branch, Langley Park and Riverdale Park, study leaders said. CDC,s can be such a tool.

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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. Proposed Gatineau-Ottawa transit loop.