The Syracuse Post-Standard reports on how one sizable retail project will still receive Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency tax breaks despite the state’s recently announced prohibition on such subsidies for retail development. The Township 5 development in the Town of […]
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Taking the Urban Mobility Report to task
Planetizen columnist Todd Litman lays waste to the key assumptions and premises in the latest Urban Mobility Report, published annually by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Says Litman: [The Urban Mobility Report] assumes that “transportation” means automobile travel, ignoring other […]
continue readingAlbany Times Union: “Come on back to our cities”
(February 13, 2013)– An Albany Times Union editorial looks candidly but optimistically at the ardent, earnest efforts underway in Albany and Schenectady to lure people back to urban living. Read the editorial […]
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Walking: A Resolution
By Peter B. Fleischer, Executive Director (January 9, 2013) Recently in New York City I took two walks. I strolled from Chelsea, near the High Line to visit friends in Soho. That thirty block (about a mile and a half) […]
continue readingTransit barely mentioned in Cuomo’s State of the State
(January 9, 2013)– StreetsBlog details the extent to which transit was absent from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2013 State of the State Address. The speech extolled the coming rebirth of the Tappan Zee Bridge, despite the all-important transit component being dropped […]
continue readingDrying out NYC’s Waterfront Parks
(Novemeber 2, 2012) While many are still without power and much cleanup and repair will be needed, Landscape Architecture Magazine provides an optimistic report on the damage done to many of NYC’s waterfront parks. Many of the designs took into […]
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Recovering from the storm
Today, just as was the case last August, New Yorkers are trying to pick up the pieces after another “100 year storm”. While last year much of the damage was located along waterways upstate, this year it is the Metro […]
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REDC Round 2: Growth, in the right place, done the right way…
The Syracuse Inner Harbor project, reinvigorating the waterfront with mixed-use development, is just one of many examples of how Central New York has continued their commitment to smart economic development in Round 2. Peter Fleischer, Executive Director (October, 17, 2012) […]
continue readingThe Density Debate
(August 9, 2012) Empire State Future Coalition Member Natural Resources Defense Council blogs about the issue of dense and development and posits that dense development can certainly be sprawl, too. This blog inspires us to link to one of our […]
continue readingBuffalo Artvoice writer exhorts Upstate metros to pursue cit…
(July 31, 2012) Buffalo Artvoice writer Bruce Fisher suggests strongly that Upstate regions can only grow and prosper in the right ways if they cast aside counterproductive parochialism and consolidate their central cities and surrounding counties. Read Bruce’s full piece, […]
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