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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

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Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed. Banner / The Seattle Times) OTOH, it's not just office buildings (" Stress Builds as Office Building Owners and Lenders Haggle Over Debt ," New York Times ), hotels (" Difficulty Securing Financing Halts More Than Half Of U.S.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

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My response was you don't develop such relationships in crisis, but when times are good, and hopefully, those relationships and funding streams can survive exogenous shocks. That money provides a base level of support independent of fare revenues and government appropriations. It's probably too little too late.

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

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In 2009 and a couple times afterwards, I said it was necessary for WMATA to rebuild the regional/metropolitan consensus about support for transit. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. So given there's been talk about this for at leas 20 years I'm not holding my breath. Right now, Virginia has a Republican Governor.

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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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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

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Screenshot, Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership marketing campaign, 2009. Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). This reminds me that when Toronto did an urban grayfield development project in the 1970s, creating the St.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.