Posts tagged Malls
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Little changes presage big ones at City Place Mall
A lot of things have kept City Place Mall from success since it opened in 1992. The five-story mall at Colesville and Fenton in Downtown Silver Spring has a mix of discount and off-brand stores that attract shoppers from across the region but aren’t relevant to well-heeled people living in the immediate area. It also suffers from a reputation for crime, notably a drug-related… Keep reading…
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Breafast links: More sustainable practices
5 cents for a bag here and elsewhere; Metro challenges include ridership crunch, “reputation deficit”; DoD budget includes Medical Center Metro entrance; DDOT will also improve 6th and Florida; Police under pressure to write tickets; Highway fund out of money, again; Rethinking the mall, or not; BaltWash SmarTrip. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: new year, semi-new ideas
Better buses too: Matt Yglesias suggests better bus service as a transit improvement we should have included in our 2009 wish list. For an easy change, he suggests updating the schedule cards to a more state-of-the-art design. Keep reading…
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Back to the future in commercial real estate
Newsweek economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson declared in his December 29, 2008 column that 2008 was “the end of an era.” He wrote, “We know 2008, much like 1932 or 1980[?], marks a dividing line for the American economy and society.” The economic trends in the commercial real estate market bear out Samuelson’s claim. On Friday,… Keep reading…
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What’s wrong with empowering cities?
Discussing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, Illinois Republican and NPV supporter Kirk Dillard said, “I’ve studied a myth among some Republicans that this empowers cities. The statistics do not bear that out.” Wait, Kirk, what’s wrong with empowering cities? Do all Republicans, or even Illinois Republicans, feel that cities should… Keep reading…