Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article, " Philly employers are desperately seeking tech workers even as Silicon Valley giants are laying off thousands ," making the point that despite the massive layoffs at software technology firms in California and Washington, there remains plenty of demand for developers at firms in places like Philly. From the article: Locally, “tech jobs” have generally been safe from cuts, he explained, because they tend to be focused on maintenance or development of cur

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As it happens, for economic reasons that these days are mostly theoretical, I am not against raising DC's Height Limit. Because of the pre-covid demand for office space downtown, the height limit "forced" a constant demolition and reconstruction of the buildings Downtown, to maximize their value and usable square footage. As a result of this "recycling" rents have always been comparatively high.

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