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U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Reauthorized

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The agency awarded $3 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) grants to help regions build back better, create good jobs, and shore up travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors that were hard hit by the COVID-10 pandemic. EDA is a federal agency within the U.S.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Virtual Tools Expand Outreach. “We That allowed the city to use multiple types of outreach to share updates with people as the project developed. Rethink to Boost Participation.

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(Contact-Free) Human Touch Helps Transform a Riverscape

GovLoop

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Virtual Tools Expand Outreach “We were able to get so much more information,” Skowera said. “We That created a problem: How could the city design a community space without the input of the community?

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photo: David Jackson, Park Record. An article, " Community Planning Lab projects offer solutions to Summit County’s problems ," in the Park Record discusses Summit County's relatively new Community Planning Lab initiative. Neighborhood groups had to come together to come up with and implement a program of community improvements.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 I argue that "a building" isn't enough, you have to have a plan to address health inequities in innovative and novel ways. Plan + program + building.