Economic Development – Page 3 – The Urbanist Dispatch

The Sinking Ship Parking Garage in Seattle's Pioneer Square

The rent is too damn high: How building parking drives up the cost of living

December 16, 2013

A new study from the Sightline Institute has shined light on how the price of on-site parking has driven up the cost of rent for apartment dwellers, regardless of if those tenants purchased a parking permit or ...

Lessons in Public Private Partnerships

Liz Hayden

December 10, 2013

Economic Development, Featured

In 2003, the buildings formerly known as the mercantile buildings in downtown Hamilton, Ohio were two weeks from their demolition date. After years of neglect, the floors of the two buildings, built in 1897, ha...

The Business of “Off-season”

Justin Barker

December 6, 2013

Economic Development

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Before I moved to Aspen, I never even thought about an “off-season”. Growing up in the Midwest, things pretty much remained the same year-round, except winter didn’t exactly generate the same hype it does out ...

Movement 2010 at Hart Plaza in Detroit, MI.

Detroit’s Music Scene Valued at $1.15 Billion with Room to Grow

Chris Matus

December 4, 2013

Culture, Economic Development, Featured

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In addition to my health, friends and family, I had something unexpected to celebrate this past Thanksgiving: the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) is returning to the city on July 4, 2014. DEMF’s return...

Pittsburgh Civic Arena Plan. Image from pittsburghmovingforward.org

Pittsburgh enters its stride with a progressive new Mayor

Patrick Hewitt

December 2, 2013

Economic Development, News, Policy

The press has been very kind to the City of Pittsburgh recently, and rightly so. The Brookings Institute heralded Pittsburgh as one of only three cities nationally to fully recover from the recession, the Econo...

Turner Field, Atlanta GA. Photo by markwhitt on Flickr.

The new stadium deal in “Atlanta” that has everyone talking

John Cruz

November 28, 2013

Economic Development, Featured, The Burbs

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In 1996, in preparation for the summer Olympics, Atlanta erected a number of athletic structures to host some of the greatest athletes from around the globe. The Centennial Olympic Stadium would continue to hos...

Transit Oriented Economic Development for Rust Belt American Cities

John Cruz

August 13, 2012

Economic Development, Featured

The final work of my graduate program at Wayne State was a masters essay on TO(E)D for Rust Belt cities, since this has been the reason why updates have been so sparse as of late, I felt that it was only fair t...

Karachi’s Unplanned Poor

David Mieksztyn

March 15, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development, Featured

Imagine everything is new, bright and shiny. Imagine this new is something that also keeps you out, pushes you away, and finds you abandoning the place you once called home. When the poor in society are pushe...

Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell defends cities, Obama budget

John Cruz

February 19, 2012

Economic Development, News, Policy

Grand Rapids Mayor took to mlive.com yesterday morning with an article defending cities and the Obama budget. The former city commissioner and ordained minister's editorial list's off a healthy number of reason...

What exactly IS the DEGC looking to do with the old Tiger Stadium site?

John Cruz

September 17, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development, Featured, Sustainability

It seems that the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation has rejected yet another proposal to keep activity on the ball field of former Tiger Stadium. The stadium at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was demolis...