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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

From the article: What’s featured here is not definitive, and perhaps not even fully representative of what it looks like to have an artistic space of one’s own in the city. 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.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " University President Freeman Hrabowski and an agenda for urban universities ," 2021 -- " President of Washington State University dies: fostered development of the "University District" adjacent to Downtown Spokane ," 2015 -- " Universities as elements of urban/downtown revitalization: the Portland State story and more ," 2014 -- " Better2016 (..)

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And sports betting , which is now legal in many states, and would experience a local bump maybe in association with an All Star Game, definitely with the Super Bowl. But it's not huge when it comes down to it. Although not in Utah, where gambling is not legal. Snowbird Resort, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Skiing + the All Star Game.

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Call for Chapters: Teaching the Whole Student: Compassionate Instruction in the Academic Library (ACRL Publication)

A Library Writer's Blog

About the book: Compassion at its simplest definition is the “sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it” (Merriam-Webster). doi.org/10.1108/JRIT-08-2017- 0017 NASW standards for social work case management. Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 11 (1), 22–66.

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Developing and Implementing Property Remediation Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities in the Lehigh Valley: A Case Study of Bethlehem and Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Center for Community Progress

Reinvestment Fund conducted Market Value Analyses for the City of Bethlehem (2018) and Northampton County (2019) to support data-driven blight prevention and remediation plans. The plan for Bethlehem, which straddles both Northampton and Lehigh Counties, won the 2018 Lehigh Valley Award for Plan or Policy.

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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

Bilbao as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning ," 2017 But I have to say that the student "inspired me" to rethink of the bridge park as an opportunity to reshape revitalization planning and practice in Anacostia. s Least-Visited Smithsonian, The Anacostia Community Museum, Is Preparing For Gentrification " WAMU/NPR, 2017.