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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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I've written about relocation of DC government agencies over the years as a misguided economic development strategy (" The Reeves Center Myth Revisited ," 2011, " Office Buildings Won't Save Anacostia ," 2005).

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In a market economy for housing, to ensure a place for the economically less well off, that requires public intervention to build, own, and operate housing, as well as other subsidies, such as vouchers for people to pay for private market housing.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

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The Urban Agenda calls for the unprecedented alignment of the entire agency by linking the work of national parks and programs to advance conservation, education, recreation, and economic development in urban areas. But even before that I went back and forth on it.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

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Adding to the complexity, the answers to these questions might vary depending on service area (ie public education, economic development, etc). Who Benefits from Nonprofit Economic Development? Examining the Revenue Distribution of Tax-Exempt Development Organizations among U.S. References. LeRoux, Kelly.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And Maglev and the Central Business District, which is another inducement for a Height increase, one completely unseen by DC's planning and economic development officials (" DC, Transformational Projects Action Planning, and the Baltimore-Washington Maglev project ," 2021). Social urbanism and equity planning.

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

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The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

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