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Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles.

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Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival.

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The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs. Transit and economic development.

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They are looking to improve transit but haven't had a lot of success--failed tax referenda in 2020 and 2022 with another possible attempt for 2024, and there is back-biting (" Mayor Demings wary of Universal’s SunRail expansion plan, cites ‘lack of transparency’ ," Mass Transit Magazine ).

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But even before that I went back and forth on it. The award-winning orchid curtain in the Exhibition Hall at Longwood Gardens' 2015 Orchid Extravaganza. Photo: CAROL DeGUISEPPI Also see " From Longwood to Winterthur, Philly area gardens drive $256M in economic impact ," Philadelphia Inquirer.

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