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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

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. -- " New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco ," 2023 -- " A wrinkle on BTMFBA: let the city/county own the cultural facility, while you operate it (San Francisco and the Fillmore Heritage Center) ," 2021 -- " BTMFBA: Baltimore and the Area 405 Studio ," 2021 -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," (..)

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With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

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Linda Hodges Gallery, whose owner is retiring, and CoCA, which will be operating online only for a while, are among a number of high-profile Pioneer Square galleries that have closed their brick-and-mortar spaces in recent years.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

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According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access.

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The Future Is Customer-Centered

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In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

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In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

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million, and evidently that was too much, and the station wasn't able to successfully compete for donations for operations as well as loan payments, as they faced KUER-FM, the NPR affiliate owned by the University of Utah. The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5