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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 Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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

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Some local officials and community leaders have long worried that, without attention, rising land values and rents around the 21 stations will price out business and residents, particularly in lower-income communities in Prince George’s international corridor. Poster board from the 2014 meetings.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

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Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Uphams Corner, Boston: revitalization "without" gentrification

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Photos by Bob Haas Second, people with choices did move into the neighborhood some, and unlike the in-migrants described in the movie " Flag Wars " in the Old Towne East neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, they were very much focused on working with the people in the community, not being disconnected "urban pioneers."

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

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I'm not into it, but it's a kind of extension of that idea, but for space and place.

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Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus

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Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). billion in tax incentives (" Caps, Wizards complex in Virginia could get largest arena subsidy ever ").

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