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Plan calls for 40-year redevelopment of Geneva Steel site	14.6.2010	Salt Lake Tribune
Vineyard » More than 2,000 acres of vacant land between I-15 and Utah Lake at the former Geneva Steel site could be transformed into commercial, industrial and residential development.
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Next stop for SLC: year-round market	13.6.2010	Salt Lake Tribune
Train traffic can be a terrible thing -- to waste. Hoping to lure TRAX and FrontRunner riders for decades to come, Salt Lake City has signed off on its development vision for the dilapidated Depot District just east of the transit hub.
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Affordable-housing funds available	12.6.2010	Denver Post: Business
Affordable-housing funds available
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Phoenix offers iPhone app to fight city blight	11.6.2010	azcentral.com \| news
The city of Phoenix has launched a pilot program for a free iPhone application allowing people with iPhones to point, click and send in photos of blight to the city's Neighborhood Services Department.
Phoenix might escalate fight against city blight	10.6.2010	azcentral.com \| news
Department responsible for acting on blight violations seeks changes in the rules.
Colorado Business	9.6.2010	Denver Post: Business
Colorado Business
Survey: Parking is Vail's No. 1 problem	1.6.2010	Vail Colorado: Columnists
VAIL, Colorado - Town of Vail residents have spoken, and parking is on their minds more than any other topic up for debate. The town's 2010 Community Survey gathered 528 responses from town residents, including full-time and part-time residents, as well as owners and renters. The survey, while not perfect in its representation of the community's opinions, is done every two years to gauge how the community thinks of the town and its services. The last survey was done in 2007. The town sent 7,800 postcards to town residents or employees to solicit online responses for the survey - 528 responses meant just an 8 percent response rate. Town residents found work-force housing, environmental sustainability, the use of the conference-center ...
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Conservancy snaps up property to keep it affordable	28.5.2010	Denver Post: Business
Conservancy snaps up property to keep it affordable
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Jamaica: 73 killed in hunt for alleged drug lord	28.5.2010	Durango Herald
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of residents of a bullet-pocked slum on Thursday, and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord has risen to 73. The target of the manhunt, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, was nowhere to be found.
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Discovery Triangle plan focuses on urban core	28.5.2010	azcentral.com \| business
Discovery Triangle, metro Phoenix's urban-redevelopment experiment, lost a city when Scottsdale pulled out last month.
South Scottsdale may get boost from new law	21.5.2010	azcentral.com \| news
Scottsdale expects to be first city to take advantage of new law that allows property owners to self-impose taxes to form special redevelopment districts
Our View: Press ‘pause’ on base area	16.5.2010	Steamboat Pilot
The Steamboat Springs City Council should resist the temptation Tuesday to approve $2.2 million in base area promenade work until the city’s ability to access additional funds and generate enough tax incremental financing to pay off the debt becomes clear.
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Vail Valley Voices: Some signs of growth begin to appear	1.5.2010	Vail Colorado: Business
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the Vail Homeowners Association monthly report for May. We plan to publish weekly excerpts from the association, which keeps a close eye on economic and political trends in and outside of the town. The newsletter electronic version with links to supporting documents is available at www.vailhomeowners.com First order of business: Vail residential property owners are, as a result of the recession, hearing Realtors recommend lowering selling price expectations by 20 to 40 percent from the 2007 market high. The Vail Homeowners Association advocates that the first order of business is to follow those pathways that will most effectively return the appreciation of property and business values. There ...
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Packed field sizes up top issues in District 1 council race	30.4.2010	Denver Post: News: Local
Packed field sizes up top issues in District 1 council race
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Vail Valley Voices: Vail braced early for its downturn	28.4.2010	Vail Colorado: Columnists
The first full year of the economic recession was finally felt in Vail during 2009 following earlier indicators of a weakened local economy during the close of 2008. That was nearly a year later than experienced nationally. In anticipation of the downturn, town leaders looked to an arsenal of strategies and actions that have been used to manage costs and attract visitors. In the end, Vail finds itself well positioned to retain its competitive edge due to the extraordinary timing of the major redevelopment surge, expanded marketing alliances with Vail Resorts and other business partners, and an emphasis by the municipality on economic development and fiscal responsibility. Looking ahead, Vail is not only in a position to sustain a continued ...
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25 arrested in police sweep of Indian School, I-17 area	24.4.2010	azcentral.com \| news
Phoenix police continued to target prostitutes, drug dealers and other criminals in the Canyon Corridor community near Interstate 17 and Indian School Road in advance of a gun-buyback program.
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A rebirth for South Salt Lake?	13.4.2010	Salt Lake Tribune
What does a beleaguered suburb saddled with a pinched tax base and a bum image do? Erect a downtown, of sorts, anchored by a train, a streetcar, an entertainment zone and, hopefully, a new identity.
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Neal Peirce: Slum dwellers' self-census	9.4.2010	Denver Post: Opinion
Could it be that African and Indian slum dwellers are more civically conscious than millions of Americans? There's an amazing "self-enumeration" effort under way continents away from us - and more about that in a moment.
Construction kick-off meeting is Friday in Vail	6.4.2010	Vail Colorado: Editorials
VAIL - Construction projects occurring in Vail in 2010 will be the topic of a community meeting beginning at 9 a.m., Friday in the Vail Town Council Chambers. Information on public and private construction projects will be available, including town projects, utility projects, private developer projects, and their construction impacts to town roads, the Frontage Roads and adjacent properties. In addition, details will be provided on anticipated private project construction schedules as it relates to the Four Seasons and improvements to East Meadow Drive, plus Solaris, Ritz-Carlton Residences and other redevelopment already underway. Information will also be presented on Frontage Road improvements associated with the redevelopments as well as ...
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Local governments hardly using $4B in federal funds	2.4.2010	Salt Lake Tribune
Lehigh Acres, Fla. » With a use-it-or-lose-it deadline just months away, communities have spent less than half of $4 billion available under a federal program to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed properties.
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