Archive for the ‘Rurbanomics’ Category

Carolina’s historic character + sustainability = North Carolina Rail Trails

Posted on October 13th, 2007 in Rurbanomics | No Comments »

I saw North Carolina’s rail trails the first time I visited Durham. NCRT mission is corridor preservation, retrieval and conversion of obsolete rail ways Read the rest of this entry »

The Shadow of Debt: Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis on the threat to urban progress

Posted on October 1st, 2007 in Rurbanomics | 1 Comment »

In the 1990’s, Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White established a landmark agreement with northeast Ohio’s banks. Using the Community Reinvestment Act as leverage, Read the rest of this entry »

Mesa del Sol Part II: September 26, 2007 NY Times Coverage

Posted on September 26th, 2007 in Rurbanomics | 2 Comments »

New York Times
September 26, 2007
Planned City Rises Within a City in the Southwest

Albequerque motion picture studios at Forest City’s Mesa del Sol

By LISA CHAMBERLAIN
ALBUQUERQUE — A 25-square-mile stretch of flat acreage here with sweeping views of the Sandia Mountains — said to be the largest tract of undeveloped land in the United States within one city’s limits Read the rest of this entry »

Adaptive Reuse: Lemonade out of lemons…

Posted on September 10th, 2007 in Development Tools: Arts, Design & Sustainability, Rurbanomics | 1 Comment »

It seems easy, right? Take old, obsolete buildings, find uses more appropriate to the 21st century, and transform them. All too often though, Read the rest of this entry »

Pew Charitable Trust issues new study of state level R & D strategies

Posted on September 6th, 2007 in Rurbanomics | 1 Comment »

Pew’s Center on the States’ new study Investing in Innovation examines how states have begun more customized R & D strategies Read the rest of this entry »

Forest City’s Film Studio at Mesa del Sol: Where the Creative Class and manufacturing meet

Posted on August 31st, 2007 in Rurbanomics | 2 Comments »

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Forest City Enterprises, a Fortune 1000 company headquartered in Cleveland, is building one of the largest and most modern film facilities on the continent Read the rest of this entry »