Center for Community Progress

JUNE 22, 2023

At the beginning of March, the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF) cohort travelled to Loíza, Puerto Rico for their second learning exchange. In 2016, the government shuttered a large number of public schools across Puerto Rico, leaving hundreds of vacant school buildings as a result.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ "). Economic Development hype versus building the local economy. million in total economic impact. But it would have to be built into the experience.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

between 2021 and 2022.” The new system automates routine tasks and customizable workflows, providing HR professionals with more time to focus on strategic initiatives and employee development. The improved performance management system provides a solid foundation for ongoing development and improvement.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 15, 2023

The key is to constantly be focused and planning and forward looking. -- " HBCUs and the city: Relocating Cheyney University to Philadelphia? ," 2021 -- " Howard University announces wide ranging building program ," 2022 (Note, not saying HU is forward thinking. They've had a lot of problems)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2024

He was very clear about the point of the arena being developing the area around the arena, which has resulted in over $3 billion in new development over about 25 years. It's also another lesson about planning and development. That's pretty amazing. This relates to my lesson about such facilities.

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iGrantWriters

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

"Buy the Mother F Building Already" is a series of entries about best practice and worst practice in buying, holding, and developing properties for arts and culture related uses. My lament was the lack of systematic, community-wide initiatives to buy, hold, develop and preserve properties for arts and culture related uses.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

about the importance of CapitalOne Arena on the development of Downtown's East End. Fans line up outside the arena before the opening night game between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena on October 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). I argued it would have happened anyway.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A significant step forward for the construction industry The UK Government Building Information Modelling (BIM) mandate in April 2016 was a significant step forward for the construction industry, providing the processes and guidance, standards and governance for designing, constructing and operating built assets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We need him to work with community advocates to pass citywide policies that prioritize low-income housing and opt the 2nd District into the mixed-income neighborhood overlay, which would require housing developers to ensure 20% of their units are affordable. -- " Fighting blight by fixing up homes could bring down Philly gun violence, new study shows (..)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." The program gives guests at roughly 70 Seattle hotels a free pass to 60-plus shows throughout the month of November.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2023

The authors find evidence that average eviction filing rates were consistently higher in public housing than in other types of subsidized housing in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019). Cases filed due to non-payment of rent are the focus of the brief and represent the majority of eviction filings. One study (Gromis et al.,

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 23, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2022 These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to our customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Summit County where Park City is then developed a similar tax, called RAP, Recreation, Arts and Parks. It's called ZAP and it covers three areas: the Hogle Zoo, Parks both the County system and projects by the various cities, and funding for cultural organizations. I don't know if other jurisdictions elsewhere in Utah have done the same.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

Currently, TheBus system is the least well developed of the suburban transit agencies (" By choosing coverage over frequency, Prince George’s caps what its buses can accomplish ," GGW). Change the name of the service and the graphic design of the bus livery.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

My response was you don't develop such relationships in crisis, but when times are good, and hopefully, those relationships and funding streams can survive exogenous shocks. That money provides a base level of support independent of fare revenues and government appropriations. It's probably too little too late.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Because downtown D.C. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

Also see: -- " To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network) ," 2022 Brightline as an opportunity to improve transit in Florida cities, using the Transformational Projects Action Planning Approach.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The pavilion project is interesting for a bunch of reasons: the original pavilion study dates to 2016. Similarly, we've developed some nice signage for the pavilion, although it's not quite installed. So it took 8 years to construct the first new pavilion. Other federal agencies like BLM use the same guidelines.)

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 29, 2023

This illustrates how land banks can “bank land for assemblage,” or acquire several vacant properties adjacent to one another in order to assemble a larger parcel of land that can then be sold to a single owner or developer or transferred to another public entity for a project like a park. Source: Google Maps The same lot in 2016.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sixth, and belatedly, that the Silver Line taxed the system's infrastructure in ways that have made degradation of service quality standard practice (" More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core, " 2016). Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

But not that much (" Rents and home prices are still soaring, but at a slower pace ," Washington Post ), " The Most Competitive Rental Markets in 2022: Miami Is Red Hot, While Competition in the Northeast Intensifies ," RentCafe). Pella, the company, is steadfast with its development plans. We are seeing that.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When this will happen: We began rolling out early November 2022 and expect to complete by mid-February. The resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions model for receiving all messages, originally developed for Microsoft Teams Graph APIs, is being extended to bot scenarios. Thank you for your patience.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | November 2022. We will be retiring the Reports landing page from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal by the end of December 2022. When this will happen: Targeted Release: We expect this to begin rolling out in early December 2022. When this will happen: December 7, 2022.

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Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 20, 2023

Join us in-person at the Reston Garage or remotely from your computer, to see the solutions developed using the Power Platform during that week's FedMake event. When this will happen: We will begin rollout in December 2022 and expect rollout to be completed in March 2023. Share your own experiences, ask questions, and meet your peers.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 19, 2022

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2022 - Government. Updated June 27, 2022: We have updated the content below to show as intended. When this will happen: We will begin rolling out early June and expect general availability of this feature by mid-September 2022. Fill out our quick poll to help shape our products!

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The FHFA then indicated that it ended this delay and began to employ the newer, higher capital requirement approach beginning in 2022. Individual GSE public financial disclosures do, however, indicate there may have been a modest increase during 2022 (i.e., The two portfolios together peaked at over $1.5 percent to 0.49

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The purpose is to establish a solid fact base that is needed to develop effective MH-related policy. This reflects some basic economics about real estate development, which will be described in Part 2. That seems to be where MH can best play a leading, but not the only, role in developing additional sources of affordable housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

Equitable development plan. The student asked me about the equitable development plan , which I wasn't involved in developing It has a bunch of points. First is workforce development. Who wants to hang out by a freeway? A big concern about the park concept is that it will spur displacement and gentrification.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

According to the United Nations (UN) 2022 Global Assessment Report on Climate Reduction , worldwide disasters will get worse if current trends continue. Developing countries tend to bear the biggest burden of destruction, but unfortunately, earthquake early warning (EEW) systems can cost millions of dollars.

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Super Library Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In 2016 I made the conscious decision to pivot my resume towards library marketing and joined our Marketing and Communications team. The last happened in 2022. We worked with Christopher to develop a general goal for the series and then let them come up with a draft of a script.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Corporate headquarters or at least research and development for manufacturers--with Boeing being a big exception--tend to stay proximate to major manufacturing clusters. shifting supply chains and where added value is developed. R&D functions and manufacturing proximity.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 23, 2022

Note that property interests are concerned about the decline in transit quality generally as a potential hindrance to their getting tenants (" The Orange Line shutdown puts developers building by the T in a tricky spot ," Boston Globe ). -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said with the closure, other transit options should be free. But I doubt it.

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