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Community building versus economic development

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An art gallery type building won't have near the economic return as a sports arena, provided it is super well planned. Plus they have a bias against development to begin with, think developers are monsters because they make profits, etc. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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

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I have written about this issue of how communities can better leverage colleges and universities.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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I've written a bunch of articles on music as an element of the local arts ecosystem: -- " Ground up (guerrilla) art #2: community halls and music (among other things) ," 2011 -- " Under threat: Austin's music industry as an element of the city's cultural ecosystem and economy ," 2016 -- " Leveraging music for cultural and economic development: part (..)

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

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can do to start working better together as a region (Baltimore Business Journal op-ed ," 2016), and I support efforts to do this for St. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021). Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C. Louis City and County (" St.

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

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It's also another lesson about planning and development. I also wrote recently in " Suburban stadium/arena interest a function of new, younger generations of ownership or a better real estate play?

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

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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. I don't know about UT.

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

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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.