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

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 »
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’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 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 »