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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In Brooklyn and parts of Queens, rent is at least 10 to 15 percent higher than it was in March 2020.) In Manhattan, average rent prices have risen 15 percent from their levels just before the Covid-19 shutdown, and things aren’t much better in the other boroughs. (In Suitable spaces are passed down, sublet, shared in secret.

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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

My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Seasonality. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Campus Martius beach. Open Streets.

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Improving the food system related host/ess gifts for Thanksgiving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many shifted to take out operations. Restaurants are still closing in 2023. The first time I wrote this post was in 2016, but I've never done it early enough in the month, when you can actually procure an item in time, without paying for expedited shipping. Of course, restaurants were decimated by the pandemic, many closed.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The private persona of a GSE is that it is owned and capitalized by the private sector and operated as a for-profit company. Additionally, the GSEs did not commercially operate like efficient and competitive business organizations. However, F&F launched a major lobbying effort and successfully defeated the legislation in Congress.

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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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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November 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

Key points: Major: Retirement Timeline: October 2, 2023: Retirement announcement and customers can proactively set a property to block Business Connectivity services features within their tenant. October 30, 2023: Microsoft will begin blocking Business Connectivity Services features based on the tenant property set by the customer.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49 The two portfolios together peaked at over $1.5

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