Posts tagged Economic Development
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Sustainability and equity should be part of development
Making American cities sustainable is about much more than just greener buildings. Programs such as economic development initiatives can contribute to sustainability and need to incorporate equity for residents, said speakers on a recent panel at the National Building Museum. The Penn Institute for Urban Research, along with the Urban Institute, Next American City, and… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crusaders against bikes and peds
GOP targets bike and ped funding; Drivers are the real socialists?; Speeders beware; Contractors will fix escalators; High commercial taxes but low vacancies; Minnesota-Benning project slow and needy; Track White Flint in real time. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mixed news for pedestrians
Car chase on foot; Walking safer in MoCo; People like to tweet on 9 mph streets; Illegal to let a kid bike to school; Bike sharing IS transit; NNMC getting more parking; Watch where you swim; Skyland delays test patience; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Where can we live?
No place for homeless shelter; Wealthy but still segregated; Philly makes redistricting tool; Are intercity buses hurting Amtrak?; Possible makeover for L’Enfant Plaza; Future of Dream Act uncertain; Traffic enforcement on two wheels; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Trouble with the law
93 days in jail for a vegetable garden; Are strip clubs good neighbors?; Black women bike, too; Scandals complicate economic development pick; Too many boards and commissions?; Two approaches to solving regional congestion; 4 stories shockingly massive; Chairs vanish where immigrants gathered; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: The American Revolution lives on
DC gains a GOP friend; Walter Reed could affect Embassy Row; States must return federal money; Challenge to the jobs mantra; Transit is a tool of economic development; Maybe our AAA isn’t the worst; Virginia ratifies bevy of laws; Australia literally paying for sprawl; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More jobs
Gray unveils more economic development details; Electronics maker to St. E’s; Demolition by divine neglect; MetroAccess riders suing over possible TB exposure; In transit-rich neighborhood, but transit not so useful; Get searched to hear music, see sculptures; Keeping Md. drivers & cyclists ignorant; Arrest made in parade shooting; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Half-measures disappoint
Thomas rejects chair, keeps seat; Graham rejects bribe, keeps mum; Weekend trains won’t be cut; Add extensions to Metro map?; Wells suggests escalator contracting; Live buses on Google Maps; Bank regrets leaving city for suburbs; At least we’re not Staten Island; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Lots of hot air
Operation Cool Breeze not so cool; You can photograph the Baltimore light rail; Can Stessel unsuck Metro communications?; When jurisdictions vie for federal agencies; Induce and reduce the same thing?; Chinatown bus crashes, killing 4; Longer commute, shorter life; Former officials do the darndest things; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Begging for big boxes
Wegmans at Walter Reed?; Outlets a good fit for transit-poor megacomplex?; Mixed-use or move out?; Brown considering tax switcheroo; Metro to investigate excessive force; Metro still running reds; Peds struck in hit-and-run; Maryland may exclude Keolis; Bike bits. Keep reading…