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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

The discussion of Equinox and Brooklyn Army Terminal also covers community building and camaraderie amongst the artists, sharing equipment and help depending on needs, organizing events, etc. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But it is something that a community development corporation tasked to serve the arts and culture community can do. Obviously, that's not something you can expect an individual artist to be able to do.

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Follow up: arenas and stadiums as "performing arts centers" attractions for cities: experience versus retail

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's also another lesson about planning and development. OTOH, while the "Good quote" article argues that Salt Lake doesn't really have the market size to justify more teams, I guess when a billionaire wants a team and there is a super-weak one out there, it presents opportunity.

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Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In " How the closure of a Pfizer research center in Ann Arbor, Michigan led to the development of a more robust and independent biotech sector " (2021) I suggested that some colleges are particularly good at spin off business development and we should figure out how to duplicate and replicate that.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

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. -- " Planning for place/urban design/neighborhoods versus planning for transportation modes: new 17th Street NW bike lanes | Walkable community planning versus "pedestrian" planning ," 2021 -- " The layering effect: how the building blocks of an integrated public realm set the stage for community building and Silver Spring, Maryland as an example (..)

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

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“Cities were more likely to change their local zoning in 2021 compared with 2014 – and to do so more dramatically,” they wrote. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5 Those targets were spread more equitably among different communities, too. million units.

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