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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.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many small towns have decent quality of life because of the presence of small colleges, their economic and social capital impact, the offering of special events that are attractors, etc. For example, Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia has a summer theater festival. Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As commercial districts shift to what I sometimes call "eater-tainment" (" Successful retail today often includes food, experiences, social elements, and isn't rote ," 2016), the reality is that when going to a sports event, consumers aren't interested in shopping at retailers--unless they sell team merchandise exclusively--they want experiences.

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Did American Investors Believe Evergrande would be China’s Lehman Moment?

The Lowe Down

On September 22 nd , 2021, Chinese real estate giant Evergrande failed to meet a coupon deadline totaling $83 million of bond interest payments. Evergrande has become highly leveraged through this strategy, with firm liabilities totaling 2 trillion RMB ($287 billion) in 2021 equaling 2% of China’s GDP. . Article by Katie Chen.

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Orbital Sidekick uses AWS to monitor energy pipelines and reduce risks and emissions

AWS Public Sector Blog

In June 2021, the AWS Aerospace and Satellite team selected OSK as part of the four-week AWS Space Accelerator program to provide guidance on how best to make huge amounts of data about pipelines usable and actionable with cloud computing and analytics technologies.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This is worth $20 million per year off football based on a study for the Buffalo Bills, it could be more for other sports because of more events. It mentioned how the RFK campus planning effort by Events DC did mention an arena, but the point never got much play. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life.