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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Life After Redevelopment

by Gabriel Metcalf, Executive Director
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Mission Bay, a redevelopment success story. Image courtesy flickr user J Marx

Redevelopment as we’ve known it really is dead in California.

Tags: community planning, economic development
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Should We Change the Structure of the Bay Area’s Regional Government?

By Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director
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Image courtesy Flickr user J.G. in S.F.

This is a time of significant flux in the Bay Area’s regional planning landscape.

Tags: economic development, regional planning
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

To Fix Central Market, Start With a Strategy

By Sarah Karlinsky, Deputy Director
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Photo by Colleen McHugh for SPUR

Question: What’s the best way to revitalize Central Market?

Answer: There isn’t one way, but many — and they all need to be coordinated with one another.

Tags: community planning, economic development
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Behind the scenes at SFO's New Terminal 2

-By Jordan Salinger
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After lying dorma
Tags: economic development, San Francisco International Airport, SFO, Terminal 2, transportation
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Monday, April 4, 2011

SPUR to SF supervisors: don't let the next Google get away

-BY GABRIEL METCALF AND JENNIFER WARBURG

While the Bay Area is still climbing out of the great recession, we’re simultaneously experiencing the makings of a second dot-com boom.

Tags: BUSINESS TAX REFORM, economic development, MID-MARKET, PAYROLL TAX EXEMPTION, TWITTER
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Bay Area work trends lead to increased density

-POSTED BY ED PARILLON
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Co-working studio [Photo by flickr user ahopsi]

Tags: CO-WORKING, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, economic development, regional planning, TECH GROWTH, TELECOMMUTING
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Treasure Island moves forward to Planning Commission

Plans for Treasure Island are moving forward to the Planning Commission in March.

Tags: community planning, economic development, housing
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Re-thinking Redevelopment

-POSTED BY JORDAN SALINGER
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Our new Governor is proposing to eliminate redevelopment in California.

Tags: economic development
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Obama talks infrastructure

- posted by Jennifer Warburg
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Datablog: Does unemployment equal more crime?

- posted by Jordan Salinger

Crime and unemployment: two things cities consistently battle with, but rarely like to talk about.

Tags: Datablog, economic development, infographics