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"Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing

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I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers." The mixed-income development will sit at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying area of D.C. s development team. that has seen average household income nearly double over the last 25 years.

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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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The Future Is Customer-Centered

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But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.

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Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

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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.

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

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In 2018, I wrote a piece about the attempt to extend the RFK campus lease, but at the behest of the "Washington" NFL team, which has been based in Suburban Prince George's County for a couple decades. -- " Yes, modify and extend the RFK Campus lease; No, don't do it for the Washington Redskins football team " The RFK campus is on the right.