Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
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Category : Convention facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Status of Construction of the Convention Center
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
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Category : Convention facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Convention facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Convention Center Follies
Author: Heywood T. Sanders
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245776
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 40 million square feet in 1990 to 70 million in 2011—an increase of almost 75 percent. Proponents of these projects promised new jobs, new private development, and new tax revenues. Yet even as cities from Boston and Orlando to Phoenix and Seattle have invested in more convention center space, the return on that investment has proven limited and elusive. Why, then, do cities keep building them? Written by one of the nation's foremost urban development experts, Convention Center Follies exposes the forces behind convention center development and the revolution in local government finance that has privileged convention centers over alternative public investments. Through wide-ranging examples from cities across the country as well as in-depth case studies of Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis, Heywood T. Sanders examines the genesis of center projects, the dealmaking, and the circular logic of convention center development. Using a robust set of archival resources—including internal minutes of business consultants and the personal papers of big city mayors—Sanders offers a systematic analysis of the consultant forecasts and promises that have sustained center development and the ways those forecasts have been manipulated and proven false. This record reveals that business leaders sought not community-wide economic benefit or growth but, rather, to reshape land values and development opportunities in the downtown core. A probing look at a so-called economic panacea, Convention Center Follies dissects the inner workings of America's convention center boom and provides valuable lessons in urban government, local business growth, and civic redevelopment.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245776
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 40 million square feet in 1990 to 70 million in 2011—an increase of almost 75 percent. Proponents of these projects promised new jobs, new private development, and new tax revenues. Yet even as cities from Boston and Orlando to Phoenix and Seattle have invested in more convention center space, the return on that investment has proven limited and elusive. Why, then, do cities keep building them? Written by one of the nation's foremost urban development experts, Convention Center Follies exposes the forces behind convention center development and the revolution in local government finance that has privileged convention centers over alternative public investments. Through wide-ranging examples from cities across the country as well as in-depth case studies of Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis, Heywood T. Sanders examines the genesis of center projects, the dealmaking, and the circular logic of convention center development. Using a robust set of archival resources—including internal minutes of business consultants and the personal papers of big city mayors—Sanders offers a systematic analysis of the consultant forecasts and promises that have sustained center development and the ways those forecasts have been manipulated and proven false. This record reveals that business leaders sought not community-wide economic benefit or growth but, rather, to reshape land values and development opportunities in the downtown core. A probing look at a so-called economic panacea, Convention Center Follies dissects the inner workings of America's convention center boom and provides valuable lessons in urban government, local business growth, and civic redevelopment.
Month in Review ...
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
New York City's Fiscal and Financial Situation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization
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Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
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Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
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California. Court of Appeal (4th Appellate District). Division 2. Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14801, House Reports Nos. 805-811
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
The Serial Set contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. This volume includes House Reports from 107th Congress, 2nd Session, 2002.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
The Serial Set contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. This volume includes House Reports from 107th Congress, 2nd Session, 2002.
District of Columbia appropriations for 1978
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Activities of the House Committee on Government Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
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Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher:
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Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
District of Columbia Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1692
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1692
Book Description
District of Columbia appropriations for 1983
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1702
Book Description