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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

So cities have been relying on nonprofit entities--business improvement districts, parks conservancies, etc., Over time, Minneapolis made complementary investments of its own, light rail was added to the program, and the city's decline was reversed. Flower chair, Street Furniture Australia. to provide this kind of service.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.