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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Seasonality. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City.

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Grocery stores in cities: the failure of the "15 minute grocery store"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and his wife, Kathie, announced in 2016 that they would bankroll the construction of a grocery store in the city’s East End. Which is a good thing because it's lost tons of money (" Church Hill's new grocery store has lost millions in 6 months, but owners are committed to 'the market with a mission' ," Richmond Times-Dispatch ).

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. Specifically: Freddie Mac's earnings press release for full year 2019 (but not since) disclosed that the CCF required, on average during that year, was $52 billion.

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