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Garage Art Center, Queens, New York (and Flushing Town Hall)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

You're probably familiar with the trend of people hosting music events at their house. This New York Times article, " Vintage Americana and Spicy Chicken ," discusses the history of the building and how it came to be an arts center, which wasn't until 2014.

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Celebrating Latino Conservation Week — Episode 117

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Launched in 2014, Latino Conservation Week is an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation and was created to support the Latino community getting outdoors and participating in activities to protect our natural resources.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events. It mentioned how the RFK campus planning effort by Events DC did mention an arena, but the point never got much play. Events DC didn't really do a plan, more a vision.

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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

In a study for the Bridge Park project in Washington, DC, one team came up with a nice hierarchy for programming for seasonality: -- Season -- Month (July 4th, Christmas, New Year's, etc.) -- National Events (Public Lands Day, Earth Day, etc.) -- not included but should be] -- DC/city events (e.g., But this is more about major events.

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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

But what earns him the most press is the work he oversees estimating the economic impact of marquee sporting events on their host cities. Especially when many might attend special event dinners by sponsors, etc. Sports Events Tourism. But events tourism is still an important element of community identity building and marketing.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many small towns have decent quality of life because of the presence of small colleges, their economic and social capital impact, the offering of special events that are attractors, etc. For example, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia has a summer theater festival. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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Global IT solutions with Neyo Ltd

Open Access Government - Technology News

Established in 2014, we are a rapidly growing IT solutions company headquartered in London, UK with more than two decades of experience spanning across Retail, Telecom, Insurance, and Finance. We have recently opened our subsidiary company in Mumbai, India in 2021. Operating over an array of technology stack implementations.