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Downtowns
Retail is recovering — and flowering — in smaller cities and the suburbs
Feb 1, 2023
A new report from the JPMorgan Chase Institute finds retail has followed consumers to where many more now work and live.
Downtowns plan for a future with far fewer office workers
Dec 15, 2022
In New York City, daily office vacancy rates average about 50%. So it and other cities are trying to attract more visitors by converting office space to housing, improving public transit, and making their streets a destination.
More workers are returning to offices, but downtown? Not so much.
Nov 16, 2021
The share of workers staying home due to worries about the coronavirus dropped last month to a pandemic low.
California town divided over downtown homeless shelter
Dec 28, 2015
The debate is over a historic hotel offering transitional housing.
Take a walk though the country's newest urban park
Jul 27, 2012
The Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles offers much needed -- and some say, long overdue -- green space in the neighborhood.