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Balancing Energy, Air Quality, and a Sense of Place in Pittsburgh
On Monday June 29, 2015 the United States Supreme Court brought air quality into the limelight when it ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to fully consider the cost to energy...
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Business Improvement Districts – Not Just for Big City Downtowns
By Dave Feehan President, Civitas Consultants LLC Since 1990, Business Improvement Districts or BIDs, as they are commonly known, have become the most effective and accepted method for funding downtown...
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Survey: Environmental Factors and Site Selection
We are asking corporate real estate managers, location consultants and economic developers to identify how air quality affects location decisions. div.maxbutton-34-container { } a.maxbutton-34 {...
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What? Me Worry?
When people are looking for a safe place to live, they overestimate the danger from low-risk threats such as crime. No one would say that they want to live in a high crime area. The reality is that...
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Inspire Yes, But Act As Well
Tis the season for annual conferences – that chance each year for trade groups to tout their accomplishments and relevancy. The Fourth Economy team attended our fair share. What we find scary is that...
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Regional quality of place and the fight against blight
By now, the costs of blight and vacancy are well-documented in terms of unpaid local and school taxes, drained municipal resources, further disinvestment, and/or declining adjacent property values. We...
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The Challenge of Creating Actionable Plans
As part of our work in our hometown of Pittsburgh, we have been digging into all of the plans that have been created over the past five years or so. So far, we’ve found around two-dozen plans, reports,...
View ArticleNew Economics of Land Use
A great American poet once said, “For the times they are a-changing.” That is especially true today in our economy. Underneath the radar of the rhetoric and public spotlight, the...
View ArticleTracking Retail Closures
At Fourth Economy we have been tracking the news about retail store closures. These store closures often can leave significant redevelopment challenges for local community and economic development...
View ArticleCo-Working Categorized: People and Places in an Emerging Market
Over the past decade, co-working has grown from a niche offering to having a significant impact in terms of the commercial real estate market — and providing a new alternatives...
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