Inner Loop graphic courtesy of The City of Rochester Happy Friday! There’s lots of infrastructure-related news this week, and that’s a good thing, because we’re heavily focused on infrastructure repair and reform. Enjoy what we’ve lassoed for this week’s […]
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Smart Growth Roundup for the Week of February 6, 2012
Welcome to this week’s Smart Growth Roundup! This week we share quite a bit of interesting local news from around the state. As always, we welcome your suggestions for future Roundups. Local/Regional The pressure on parking in NYC Adirondack […]
continue readingEPA: US needs $300B in sewer, water work
(February 09, 2012) A new study out of the EPA confirms what we is already apparent; the countries infrastructure needs repair. According to the federal study the U.S> will need $300B in sewer and water systems upgrades in the next […]
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Smart Growth Roundup for the Week of January 30, 2012
Welcome to the second weekly addition to the Smart Growth Roundup. As you’ll see there’s a lot of compelling smart growth news from around the state. We’ve also tossed in what we think is some particularly compelling national and international […]
continue readingHouse committee seeks to cut dedicated federal transit fundi…
(February 2, 2012) The draft federal transportation bill was released this week and is a horror show for proponents of transit, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and programs, and for supporters of a “fix it first” approach to transportation funding. The […]
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Eastman Business Park embodies Rochester’s reinvention, re…
January 20, 2012 by Evan Lowenstein With Kodak plummeting, the City of Rochester and its region is seen to be plummeting as well. The association is understandable. Kodak, which once had over 60,000 employees in Greater Rochester, was the driving […]
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Smart Growth Roundup for the Week of January 23, 2012
Each week Empire State Future scans the state for land use and development news, from the best-of-the-best to the worst-of-the-worst. We also pick up a few particularly interesting stories from the nation and world. These weekly Smart Growth Roundups are […]
continue readingSenator Gillibrand extols the virtues of a national infrastr…
(January 10, 2012) Working to expedite the badly needed major infrastructure projects across the state, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been urging the idea of a national infrastructure bank. At a recent event, Gillibrand said that the infrastructure bank “is not […]
continue reading60 Minutes zeroes in on vacant properties
(December 18) On December 18, 60 Minutes brought its legendary hard-hitting reporting and investigation to the scourge of America’s vacant and abandoned properties. Focusing on Cleveland, a city where 20% of its properties went vacant during the protracted slide, 60 […]
continue readingUpstate regions awarded EPA Climate Showcase grants
(December 25, 2011) In an attempt to get the carbon reduction rubber on the road, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made grants across the country to spark applied initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases in their regions. Among the awardees […]
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