Schools, A New Use For Dead Office Buildings
Seattle and other cities have considered opening K-12 schools in or around their downtowns, both to serve the increasing number of center-city residents and to ...
For Venture Capital, Two Places Are Now Unexpectedly Strong
There's nothing surprising in the rankings of total investment, but two places do stand out when you look at the list of per capita investment: ...
What Re-Watching “Suits” Tells Us About Reversing the Urban Doom Loop
Recently "Suits" was Netflix's third most-viewed show, and re-watching the first season is like opening a time capsule of how we used to work and ...
Only One Northern City Is In Top Ten For Attracting College Graduates
The "Upshot", an arm of the New York Times, used census data to look at where college graduates are moving among 41 metro areas. Notably, ...
Why Pioneer Square is a Better Fit for the Creative Economy than South Lake Union
Why old work districts fit the needs of new creative workers better than the sleek tech zones such as South Lake Union. One reason: small ...
A Bloomberg Business Article That Gets It All Wrong About Urban Economic Development
This article talks about fusing business recruitment and tourism to draw new residents, especially with cash bonuses. As if a talented person would move to ...
For Younger Workers, This Article Notes Face-to-Face Work Brings Familiarity, Mentoring, and a Gain in Productivity
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/remote-work-feedback.html
Tourism is Now Downtown Seattle’s Primary Retail Anchor
I prepared the map below after biking downtown. Red shows occupied retail space, which is probably 1/3 to 1/2 pre-Covid. Total sales volumes are probably ...
Potential Students Are Voting With Their Feet
My work in industrial revitalization found that community colleges avoid industry-specific certification programs because they get more state funding the longer those students sit in ...
The Five Megaregions of the U.S.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-maps-reveal-new-truths-americas-megaregions-bruce-upbin/?trackingId=y8JgVfMJBiXcb2qhnQHZuA%3D%3D Having worked a lot in Sacramento, I was surprised at the weak links to San Jose.