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6 guideposts for cities to create equitable transit-oriented developments

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Multifamily Housing Affordable Housing Office Buildings Retail Centers Shopping Centers Transit Facilities Despite the best efforts of city governments and their transportation departments, transit-oriented-development projects often unintentionally burden existing residents and small businesses in the area.

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Millionaire Sitt Invests $1 Million To Improve NYC Airport Infrastructure; Launches Global Gateway Alliance

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Sitt, CEO of Thor Equities is taking it upon himself to improve the infrastructure of New York City’s airports. In fact, it’s predicted that the New York metropolitan region could well face $79 billion in economic losses by 2025 if we don’t do something about the declining state of our airport infrastructure.

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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Beyond just infrastructure implications, a mass replacement of office with residential would send a shockwave throughout other sectors. contagion from abandoned office buildings will spread to retail (no daytime shoppers), restaurants (no daytime diners), and street life (no happy hour!)

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South Dakota Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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million for new ethanol infrastructure at retail fueling stations. Local Infrastructure Improvement Program: This program provides grants to assist in funding the construction or reconstruction of infrastructure for the purpose of serving economic development projects. It offers fixed rate interest, which is currently 2%.

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The Road to Recovery in Detroit

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Cerberus, an equity player who had acquired a majority stake in Chrysler from German auto giant Daimler-Benz in 2007, went into bankruptcy in 2009. Gilbert is aggressively moving forward with a daring plan to revive two square miles of property with a variety of commercial enterprises, including hotels, casinos and retail stores.

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COMMUNITY PROFILE: Opportunity Knocks in Southwest Louisiana

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SWLA’s transportation infrastructure is keeping pace with surging development needs. There are good sites to develop because of our infrastructure which includes six ports, interstate highway, railway, airports, a large pipeline system, a loyal and productive workforce, and training facilities,” Swift says. By Eric Cormier.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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In the same month, Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) reported that 85% of new rental housing being developed in the U.S. Each time, it involves a different mix of government policy and investment with private development and equity. The community will be home to offices, schools, services such as daycare, and retail/dining.

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