Archive for Urban Renewal
How To Increase Attendance Of Inner City High School Students
By Stephen Condren The single most important item for the school administration is the school head count. The number one question that the superintendent needs to know is how many students are going to be enrolled in school for the coming year. In order for the District to get funding it has to have head [...]
Looking back to 2006 – Has Urban Renewal Improved Community Economics?
For an example of one downside of this new form of entitlement development is Southwest Washington D.C. where historic buildings were replaced with new wave monuments to architectural blight. What some see as blight in historic areas, torn down, renovated and made new, appears as an eyesore of public ridicule. Again, when Urban Renewal is [...]
Urban Renewal – Success Includes the Voice of the People
Funding operations referred to as Urban Renewal can be the clincher and the determination of whether or not to continue building on those decisions. If the people of the community are considered, and their voice is heard, the renewal of a community becomes a reality and long lasting standard of the community. If the City [...]
Urban Redevelopment Financing – TIF (tax incriment financing)
When Lamar, Colorado started chattering about Urban Redevelopment Planning, the concensus was fairly good – until they began implementing the concept of TIF, without the consent of the voters. Excuse me, but taxes belong to ME (the voter) and if you don’t want me to have a say in how they’re spent, do NOT touch [...]
When Urban Redevelopment Doesn’t Work
Urban Redevelopment is supposed to lift up the community and bring more business traffic to increase profitability within a specific urban area. That’s the purpose of creating an Urban Redevelopment Plan. But what happens when that plan has a different underlying cause and effect? In the case of many Urban Redevelopment Projects, the opposition had [...]
Banging & Clanging Landfill Demise – The Uprising of Five Points
Walking down Downing Street in Denver offers a new opportunity for inspiration these days as the Five Points gets a new facade. The Matthews Centers run the length of two city blocks and take on a host of action oriented missions to stop homelessness. Not only does Bo Matthews provide shelter for homeless, but his work [...]
Main Street – Urban Renewal Offers Community Wide Window Dressing
Living in Lamar, Colorado, at the heart of America, pedestrians expect a certain level of hometown comfort and nostalgia. Why wouldn’t they? The media purports gangly cowboys and rough shod horses still roam the dirt streets so, wouldn’t gallery style boardwalk shops be part of the picture? And yet, the metal façade structures resembling [...]