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

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The Times article is more photo essay, but like the Equinox Studios article, has some kernels of wisdom on how properties have been able to remain comparatively low rent. As of 2024, it’s never been harder for artists to find a place to work. Mycella Collective.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

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Yesterday, my SmartNews feed was on fire, with so many great articles.

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

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." -- " Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities , 2021 -- " Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale ," 2024 2. Battery District.

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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

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Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). The Downtown Action Plan highlights summary is available now, and the full Action Plan will be available in Spring 2024. It's a very important book, about the recentralization of metropolitan areas focused on center city revival.

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

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From the article: Kunkel, director of Temple University’s Sport Industry Research Center , is referring to the economic impact enjoyed by hosts of what’s evolved into a three-day-long basketball bacchanal that briefly transforms the cities it touches, and which happens to be coming to Salt Lake City next month.

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Community building versus economic development

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The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs. Transit and economic development.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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They are looking to improve transit but haven't had a lot of success--failed tax referenda in 2020 and 2022 with another possible attempt for 2024, and there is back-biting (" Mayor Demings wary of Universal’s SunRail expansion plan, cites ‘lack of transparency’ ," Mass Transit Magazine ).