Posts about Retail
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Breakfast links I: Peds, bikes, trees and parks
Don’t walk in Florida; Bike lane posted; Fenty’s training rides break various laws; Park View or just Private Golf Course View?; Pepco’s lumber subsidiary; Parking Depot. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What people like
Britons like classical architecture; Voters like transit; Longer corridor, more cities transitway; “Home plate” building illustrated; New UMD housing, parking, biking; Blame the road designer, not the pedestrian; Get that dead body out of my way!. Keep reading…
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Combined reporting levels the tax playing field for local businesses
Should a local, DC-based business pay higher tax rates than a branch of a national retailer? Of course, the answer is no. But that is precisely what has been happening. National corporations can employ complicated tax-avoidance strategies to artificially shift profits they earn in DC to places with lower taxes or no taxes at all. That gives them a distinct and unfair advantage… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links on the run: It’s a treat
“Treat the next person”; HOT lane opposition growing; Stimulus projects creating congestion; Reconnecting zoning. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hitting a wall
Free transit if you develop an app; Put the jobs near the people; Why-Mart?; Distracted reporter driving; Don’t be chicken; Klingle all the way; Two mayors on parking. Keep reading…
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With Safeway and library, Tenleytown takes two steps forward and one step back
This past week, Safeway revealed their plans to renovate the Safeway at 42nd and Ellicott Streets, along Wisconsin Avenue in the northern reaches of Tenleytown. What they propose (huge PDF) is a dramatic improvement over the bunker-like current building, and will enliven a dreary section of the neighborhood. However, the project includes no residential or commercial component… Keep reading…
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Win $1000 from Safeway; walkers, bikers not eligible
Safeway and a local radio station are giving away $1000 to 14 people. All you have to do is put a sticker in your car’s windshield; they’ll randomly pick out cars parked in the parking lots of Safeway stores to be the winners. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: HOT lanes, cold retail market
Suicide by Metro; I-66 hot again in the press, on the campaign trail; Tempers hot on 95 and 395; Correct(ing) the park(ing) story; No traffic lights in London; Empty storefronts are increasing. Why?; 1940s Sears didn’t destroy Tenleytown; The perfect city according to Byrne; The “rural until we want sprawl there” tier. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ouch
Charter driver hits Metrobus; Hello? Police?; The new new corridor; “Transportation” equals “roads” to AASHTO; Preston Bryant to chair NCPC; Making the east coast look bad; Hunting for better bicycling; A whale of a cake. Keep reading…
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ARTS report balances bars and arts, requirements and bonuses
ANCs and other community groups have a reputation for taking an anti-change, knee-jerk anti-development point of view. Just look at yesterday’s discussion of the Georgetown ANC, including many of the comments. Over in the 14th Street area, however, a committee of residents and business owners appointed by ANC 2F has created a very thoughtful and sensible set of recommendations… Keep reading…