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ScannX achieves success at the 2024 LibraryWorks Awards

Open Access Government - Technology News

SannX, a cloud-based book scanning solution for libraries, has secured Quadruple Platinum honours at the 2024 Modern Library Awards (MLAs) The LibaryWorks community of librarians has recognised ScannX for its outstanding product innovation and relentless commitment to customer support.

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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?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The reality is that government buildings don't generate a lot of spillover business development, as I discussed in another entry. government offices, DGS said. Notably, most of the newest developments are city properties--the new DCHD building and a building for the Department of Health. The city will continue to pay $1.46

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

City/government revenues from the lease are minimal. 350,000 maximum annual lease payment. And revenue sharing agreements when revenues are higher rarely kick in, because the base was set not on average attendance, but on the teams highest attendance years.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities. government and its exemption from income taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. billion for fiscal 2024.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. There is no public funding to commit to another project.” It's three stories, but there is parking for every unit.