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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," 2013 -- " DC and streetcars #4: from the standpoint of stoking real estate development, the line is incredibly successful and it isn't even in service yet, and now that development is extending eastward past 15th Street ," 2015 -- " The streetcar and the new potential for H Street retail revitalization ," 2016 this is an important piece.

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WHEN CORRUPTION HITS SMALL CITIES

Barrett & Greene

In April, a press release from the state’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that “f ollowing an investigation conducted by the Office of the Inspector General, Daniel J. You can read our interview with the producer and director of the documentary, Kelly Richmond Pope , an accounting professor at DePaul University, here.

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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. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Seasonality. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City.

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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)

3] Focusing on owner-occupied housing, house prices have increased faster than wages from 2016 (when they reached their pre-2008 peak level) through early 2020, reducing affordability. Specifically, from when prices reached their pre-2008 peak level (2016 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic hit (2020 Q1), prices increased by 24.3

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and his wife, Kathie, announced in 2016 that they would bankroll the construction of a grocery store in the city’s East End. Which is a good thing because it's lost tons of money (" Church Hill's new grocery store has lost millions in 6 months, but owners are committed to 'the market with a mission' ," Richmond Times-Dispatch ).

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Federal government research hub development initiative

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But you really have to work it: -- " Naturally occurring innovation districts | Technology districts and the tech sector ," 2014 -- " Better leveraging higher education institutions in cities and counties: Greensboro; Spokane; Mesa; Phoenix; Montgomery County, Maryland; Washington, DC ," 2016 (Reprinted.)