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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

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Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. But it would have to be built into the experience.

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Small college economic issues threaten their ability to function as a community asset

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. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

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Here in North Carolina, the North Carolina Healthy Food Retail Task Force found “the uneven distribution of supermarkets in North Carolina leaves a disproportionate number of under-resourced people without access to nutritious food” in its 2019 report , Supporting Healthy Food Access in North Carolina. By 2016, it had lost that store.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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We would call these "naturally occurring arts districts" in the vein of " naturally occurring retirement communities " and what I call "naturally occurring innovation districts" (" Naturally occurring innovation districts | Technology districts and the tech sector ," 2014).

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

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From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Because downtown D.C. Metro eyes possible future stops in Georgetown, National Harbor ," WTOP-AM).

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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 student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district.

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Federal government research hub development initiative

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The Department of Defense as a customer of technology firms has also spurred economic development. Federal laboratories too have different success rates for spurring the development and adoption of new technologies and business opportunities. There are probably some I've missed.