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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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Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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Elections

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In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. A Republican won the governorship in 2021 and that was a shock although Ralph Youngkin ran a better campaign than former Governor Terry McAuliffe along with lower Democratic turnout.

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Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen, Japan, as an example of Transformational Projects Action Planning | Planning and executing complementary improvements across the transit network + advances in transit marketing

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And various phases of a new central station complex --station, retail, office, hotel--are opening between now and 2024. Last year, in advance of the line's opening, Nagasaki opened a new convention center. But in the present, most transit agencies don't do a good job of tourism marketing.

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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

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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. But even before that I went back and forth on it.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

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“We are fighting perception, and you have to be aggressive, or it takes on a life of its own,” says Andrea Zopp, who was CEO of World Business Chicago, the city’s public-private partnership for corporate recruiting, from 2017 to 2020. “It It would be a serious mistake to move major entertainment venues to the suburbs,” Florida says.

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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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Because the province, not the city, collects income and sales taxes, the City is likely to net less than $4 million in additional revenues (" The proposal to host World Cup games in Toronto is a sucker’s deal.