Posts tagged Retail
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Breakfast links: Take a walk
Pedestrians get more time; Something rotten on Florida Ave.?; The decline of car dependence?; Teens forgo licenses; Is soccer stadium a good deal?; Volunteer away affordability; Unlawful traffic camera suspended; NoVA office corridor shifting; SmarTrip gets cheaper; And…. Keep reading…
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Workforce, business development creates jobs, not Walmart
Last week, the DC Council passed an act that requires big box retailers to pay a living wage, and Walmart threatened not to build 3 of 6 planned stores here. Opponents say it’s proof that the Large Retailer Accountability Act will kill jobs, but there are better, proven ways to encourage economic development. Economic development experts know what works: a long term coordinated… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Walter Reed rising?
3 plans for Walter Reed; Detroit files for bankruptcy; WMATA union protests privatization proposal; Ike Memorial rolls on; How to succeed in retail; When people lived smaller; No water crisis, just a PR one; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Slow beyond the Beltway
Silver Line delayed; PG dodges water crisis; Clarksburg concerns; 2 die on bikes in Maryland; Steal bike, get stung; Forget statehood, DC goes to Maryland; House not keen on autonomy; The unlicensed show monuments; More retailers oppose wage bill; And…. Keep reading…
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DC planning office also backs down on corner stores
Parking isn’t the only part of DC’s zoning update that got cut back this month. In the latest drafts, DC planners have also limited plans to allow corner stores in residential areas. Originally, they considered permitting retail, service, grocery, and arts businesses as matter of right in corner buildings, subject to lots and lots of conditions. Instead, only… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: How well does it score?
Rate the TOD; Growth of a deaf-friendly neighborhood; Georgetown students for classical style; It’s style, not size, at McMillan; Development details; “End of Autopia”; Where the groceries are; Parking minimums in NYC; Sprawl and suicide?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unwanted developments
Wage bill threatens more developments; Mixed-use Safeway causes mixed feelings; Farm-to-table, literally; Enough money for Purple & Red?; ConNeb? Comet Corner?; Can merger save Detroit?; Same story, different places; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Approved
Bike lanes win over ANC; Council passes wage bill; And many more bills; WMATA tweets in more places; People use express lanes, tolls rise; Speed cameras worked for France; First IZ condo unit sells (finally); Housing market, recovered?; Housing prices of yesteryear; Get bike tips from the crowd; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Walmart’s threat
Walmart might pull back; Is Walmart bluffing?; Marijuana bills moving; More of SW is historic; More crashes in Fairfax; Behond the new Sherman; Metro morsels; See where the hipsters are; Not much reason in highway rankings; We could use some CA HSR right now; And…. Keep reading…
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Semi-holiday links: Urban revival
Lording it over White Flint; Graham still reprimanded; Orange hurts DC autonomy?; People love balconies; Craft beer saving cities?; Florida wants less ped safety; And…. Keep reading…