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

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The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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Smaller cities lose out when it comes to business consolidation and headquarters relocation: WInston-Salem, North Carolina

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And while I haven't written about it, how quantum technological change within an industry can change its location patterns.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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This Seattle Times article, " Is West Seattle the rock ā€™nā€™ roll capital of Seattle? ," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc.,

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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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What if the park sponsored daily educational enrichment activities for the young people in nearby neighborhoods? But even before that I went back and forth on it. DC invests, half heartedly in people, not in place.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

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Use the monies to fund and expand transit, especially Metrorail within the city as discussed above and in various postings such as " More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core " (2016). And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

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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 : ā€œI think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,ā€ said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Because downtown D.C. DC is at a disadvantage too, because unlike other jurisdictions, Congress forbids it from taxing non-residents.

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Community building versus economic development

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The other element that was educational for me was the velocity of change resulting from the new station. and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. Plus the economic impact on the other four areas, totaling in the billions of new construction. Velocity of positive economic change from public investment.