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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And probably the death of Joe Englert, the impresario who helped develop many of the early establishments on the corridor, many with particularly interesting and creative business models, hasn't helped. My overall take is that revitalization and commercial district success requires constant, ongoing management.

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Federal government research hub development initiative

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I didn't know NASA originally planned for a big electronics hub in Boston's Kendall Square, as MIT's Draper Laboratory was an original developer of various electronics systems for the Apollo space program. The Department of Defense as a customer of technology firms has also spurred economic development.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Four | Seasonality, Activation and Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

My writings on daypart planning (" Planning programming by daypart, month, season: and Boston Winter Garden, DC's Holiday Market, etc. ," 2016) are relevant to parks planning too. More cities are developing what we might call "signature parks" usually in their downtowns, but not limited to downtowns. Seasonality.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. Specifically: Freddie Mac's earnings press release for full year 2019 (but not since) disclosed that the CCF required, on average during that year, was $52 billion.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Key Facts and Figures, and Some Unusual Economics (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

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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Grocery stores in cities: the failure of the "15 minute grocery store"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is another firm, the Corner Store, which has two small stores in the area, with a branch nearby in the Gateway development. Like the stores in DC and Salt Lake, it's part of a mixed use development. and his wife, Kathie, announced in 2016 that they would bankroll the construction of a grocery store in the city’s East End.