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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
And probably the death of Joe Englert, the impresario who helped develop many of the early establishments on the corridor, many with particularly interesting and creative business models, hasn't helped. My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JULY 4, 2023
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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 19, 2023
WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. And later about various funding mechanisms. -- St. Right now, Virginia has a Republican Governor.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
AUGUST 21, 2022
From a PI blog entry in 2015 : The Navy Yard development is home to GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Outfitters, a Marriott and about 140 other companies. Another two million square feet is slated to be developed and the previous feasibility study estimated about 8,000 people would use rail service by 2045. About 13,000 people work there.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
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.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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?”
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
Howard does have its bookstore on Georgia Avenue and they tried for a hotel and have worked on developing a town center there for a couple decades). Businesses developed out of university-based research. Faculty concentration as talent and an element of community development. 1 in 2021 ," Philadelphia Inquirer ).
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