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What's Next for Places?

Marian Salzman | Posted 03.04.2013 | Style
Read More: Placemaking, Bilbao, Frank Gehry, Brooklyn, New Zealand, Economy, Omaha, Copenhagen, Architecture, Charleston, Savannah, Trends, Burj Al Arab Hotel, Business, Pittsburgh, Redevelopment, Places, Tourism, East London, Guggenheim Museum, Trendspotting, Cornwall, Austin, Richmond, Sxsw, Renewal, Eden Project, Detroit, Style News
Marian Salzman

There's nothing new in the need for places to grow their appeal and maintain it. Throughout history, attractive locations have acted as a magnet for people, economic activity and cultural life, which all boosted their power and attractiveness.

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Matt Sledge

Hershey, What? This Town Used To Be Called Chocolateville!

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.22.2012 | Business
Read More: Opportunity-Public, Historic Tax Credits, Opportunity-Private, Chocolate Town, Unemployment, Central Falls Chocolate, Pawtucket, Do They Make Chocolate in America, Municipal Bankruptcy, Opportunity-Working, Central Falls, Samuel Slater, Redevelopment, Business News

Central Falls does not have much. The former industrial Rhode Island town, with a population of around 20,000, is in the news mostly for its calamitou...

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Zombie Theme Park Proposed For Abandoned Neighborhood In Detroit

Posted 07.02.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Weird News, Zombies, Urban Planning, Atlanta, Poll, Travel, Redevelopment, Zombie Attack, Video, Theme Parks, Detroit Redevelopment, Detroit Around Town, Zombie Theme Park, Huffpost Zombies, Detroit, Zombie, Zombie Apocalypse, Detroit News

Why wait for the zombie apocalypse? One man wants customers to experience the terror now. With soaring budget deficits and population on the declin...

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Las Vegas As An Arts Destination?!

AP | CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 04.27.2012 | Arts
Read More: Las Vegas Arts, Art Deco, Smith Center, Las Vegas, Art Complex, Arts, Las Vegas Redevelopment, Las Vegas Strip, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, Redevelopment, Arts News

LAS VEGAS — It's a desert oasis that hangs its priciest paintings on casino walls, where neon signs are a point of a pride and themed-hotels pay...

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Megan Arellano

PHOTOS: Trump's Plan For D.C. Landmark Surprises Visitors

HuffingtonPost.com | Megan Arellano | Posted 02.14.2012 | DC
Read More: District of Columbia, Trump Hotel Dc, Historic Landmarks, Historic Preservation, Donald Trump Dc, Real Estate, Redevelopment, Video, Redevelopment Rights, Old Post Office, Donald Trump, Hotel, Congress Bells, D.C., Donald Trump Old Post Office, Observation Deck, DC News

WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia resident Pinar Arcan has been in the nation's capital long enough to remember Nancy Hanks' campaign to save the Old...

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A Simple Plan for Detroit's Resurgence

Rep. Hansen Clarke | Posted 01.16.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Taxes, Detroit, Detroit-Michigan, Economy, Redevelopment, Infrastructure Spending, Detroit Jobs Trust Fund, Education Funding, Detroit Politics, Detroit News
Rep. Hansen Clarke

For too long, we have seen our manufacturing jobs shipped overseas with little investment to retrain workers. We have seen high local taxes stifle entrepreneurship. It's time that we -- the people of Detroit -- take charge of our city's future.

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Santa Monica: How the People's Republic Became a Business Mecca

Frank Gruber | Posted 12.24.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: William Fulton, Los Angeles Real Estate, Steve Lopez, L.A. Live, Los Angeles Times, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Urbanism, Redevelopment, The Reluctant Metropolis, La Real Estate, Los Angeles News
Frank Gruber

Why does L.A. need to subsidize offices downtown when Santa Monica has developers banging on the door?

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Robin Wilkey

Environmental Group Celebrates Failed Lawsuit?

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 09.12.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Hunters Point Shipyard, Bayview, Hunters Point Redevelopment, Lennar, Lennar Urban, Hunters Point, San Francisco Real Estate, Bayview Redevelopment, Power, San Francisco, Redevelopment, San Francisco News

SAN FRANCISCO -- Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith on Monday dismissed the bulk of a legal challenge against the Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopm...

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Bahrain: A Roundabout Way to Signifying Nothing

Todd Reisz | Posted 06.05.2011 | World
Read More: Persian Gulf, Bahrain Protests, Middle East, Urban Planning, Bahrain, Architecture, Arts, Al Manakh, Redevelopment, Design, World News
Todd Reisz

The roundabout, or traffic circle, represents the strides of modernization that the British presence unfurled in Bahrain. A symbol of unrest might be gone, but Bahrain is far from being stable again.

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Street Art Mecca Five Pointz To Be Razed, Replaced With High Rises

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Images, Five Pointz, Queens, Wnyc, Street Art, Graffiti, Fave Pointz Demolished, Real Estate, Jonathan Cohen, Jerry Wolkoff, Meres, New York, Redevelopment, Arts News

New York graffiti Mecca Five Pointz will soon be razed and replaced with high rises and a luxury shopping mall. Owner Jerry Wolkoff has allowed st...

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Fix California Redevelopment -- Don't Kill It

Madeline Janis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Poverty, Redevelopment, Jerry Brown, Politics News
Madeline Janis

Governor Jerry Brown has proposed the elimination of California's redevelopment agencies. But a better idea is to refocus redevelopment on its origina...

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An Axe to Calif. Redevelopment Agencies Means Less Homeless Housing

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: California, Antonio Villaraigosa, Homelessness, San Diego, Third World America, Banana Republic, Pasadena, Jerry Brown, Starbucks, Culver City, Los Angeles, Redevelopment, Affordable Housing, Impact News
Joel John Roberts

To cut one of the most effective publicly-funded programs that can dramatically improve a city's economic state, and pour in new jobs, just does not make sense.

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Reclaim Bahrain

Todd Reisz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Exhibition, Italy, Masterplan, World, Architecture, Design, Bahrain, Waterfront, Interview, Al Manakh, Redevelopment, Biennale, Noura Al-Sayeh, Middle East, Gulf, Arts, Venice, Reclaim Bahrain, Fuad Al Ansari, Som, Arts News
Todd Reisz

If any country has learned from the last several decades what architecture can do, Bahrain, as most other Gulf countries, could tell the story of how just a few decades of development can transform a country's shape and its people.

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China Property Rights May Be Increased

AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: China, Property Rights, China Land, Land Owner, China Development, Redevelopment, China Property, World News

BEIJING — China's Cabinet suggested major changes Friday to the way land is seized for redevelopment in an attempt to calm a passionate issue th...

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Beverly Hills' Measure H Takes on the Tony Town

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: John Edwards, Merv Griffin, Local Elections, Beverly Hills, Measure H, The Golden Globes, Real Estate, Larry Larson, Beverly Hilton, Benny Alagem, Redevelopment, Business News
Tom Gregory

For Beverly Hills residents Measure H will be on the November ballot. Neighbor is pitted against neighbor as they struggle with how to pull the lever on this high-stakes issue.

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