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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

By 2019, the cloud supported SMEs that used £1.3 Simplification – Chile has administered public procurement through ChileCompra since 2003. It operates with a regulatory framework based on transparency, efficiency, accessibility, and nondiscrimination. By 2015, there was a £4 billion ($5.09 billion ($1.65

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Action News has been going through some of the new data and found that foot traffic in the heart of Center City reached 83% of 2019 levels, while residents reached 126%. I suggested something like this to the DC Main Street program in 2003, but it was too ambitious for them to understand.) Retail store development.

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In a way, he did more to revive the corridor than the city or the Main Street group I helped found, as he brought buildings, capital, vendor relationships, operators, and creative concepts together in multiple locations (" Joe Englert, DC nightlife impresario, dies | Lessons about nightlife-based revitalization ," 2020).

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. Later, I realized that along the lines of thinking about transit as a network operating at different scales I propose a metropolitan scale as the foundation, usually heavy rail and railroad, and then center city and suburban (sub)networks within it. Adding a Tysons tram system to that list.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The city did a plan for the area around 2003. Another DC example is development on the site of the Takoma Metrorail station (" The Takoma Metro Development Proposal and its illustration of gaps in planning and participation processes ," 2014).

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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

The Economic Impact of Local Parks: An Examination of the Economic Impacts of Operations and Capital Spending on the United States Economy , National Recreation and Parks Association). The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. I can't think of a worse walk.

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Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A lot of my thinking about arts revitalization and more generally as an element of a community's culture was influenced by the failure of a bunch of DC arts organizations around 2003-2006. Ultimately owning facilities is key to protect the city's interest. Ultimately owning facilities is key to protect the city's interest.