Posts tagged Tax Breaks
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How can DC foster an entrepreneurial District?
Over the past 10 years DC has grown from being a virtual non-entity when it came to the tech sector to a vibrant center with almost 450 startups. Some firms such as Blackboard and LivingSocial have built national and international reputations. What has DC done to help this along, and what can and should it do to keep the momentum going? Last week, Smart Growth America hosted a panel… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Keep it
Save or spend?; Condo bike storage; Trump won’t get tax break; Cars in DC; Virginia schools in flux; Ride in your car and on a train; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Pray
Tax break for empty church land?; Washington’s boom, poorly explained; Tysons gets buses; More condos are bad, say condo owners; Suburban officials criticize DC; Tide turning on driver responsibility?; Metrohenge Dupont is today; Amtrak eyes new bridge and tunnel; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transportation projects for the new year
VA’s Outer Beltway coming; What counties want; More info on Jack’s; Arlington peaking?; Year’s most annoying in development; Regulations make alley living pricey; DC faces higher fiscal cliff; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More bikes in more places
More are biking; Fairfax gets friendlier to bikes, peds; Stuck in park on parking; Pick a tagline; Yes! changes; Why Intelsat picked Tysons; Corporate incentives don’t work; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Votes and non-votes
DC Council votes; Tysons tax vote pushed back; Olson “too Arlington” for PG?; Gray not into autonomy vote; L Street lane opens, M is next; A “bike beltway” for Towson?; Court hears psychic’s zoning challenge; Not throwing stones; More infrastructure $?; And…. Keep reading…
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Howard Town Center doesn’t need an $11 million tax break
The DC Council today will vote on an $11 million property tax break for the Howard Town Center that the DC CFO insists is unnecessary. At a time of crumbling schools and budget cuts, we can’t afford to hand out optional property tax abatements like Santa Claus. What else could we do with $11 million? It costs $11 million to modernize Stuart-Hobson Middle School… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go the distance
Silver Line to Largo requires extra silver; Spingarn gets historic; No rentals at St. E’s?; Council committee giveth; Council committee taketh away; What changed after Rhee?; Can Amtrak ever satisfy Congress?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Warnings of trouble
Shuster gets transportation chair; WMATA warned on cell service timeline; Transportation, housing add up; U-turn on Penn, pay $100; On the Riverfront; Arlington may go private; SW buys a screen; Fewer will be WorkingSocial; What if feds had fewer offices?; And…. Keep reading…
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Gray sets out solid vision for economic development
Yesterday, Mayor Gray released an economic development strategy for DC, to create 100,000 jobs over the next 5 years and beyond. The mayor deserves kudos for a strong and thoughtful report. The administration partnered with DC’s strong academic sector on the plan. Instead of paying millions of dollars to consultants, they reached out to the business schools of Georgetown,… Keep reading…