It seems that hardly a week goes by without news of yet another city rebranding itself, yet one has to wonder whether it's for the health of the counsellors looking to put their city on the map of young, well-to-do travellers or whether the city and its residents can truly...
The paper explores commercial real estate development and its contribution to the "city offer" and consists of sections on office development analysis and individual city overviews. It identifies the key themes running through the quantitative and qualitative research, and sought to conclude on how property development is contributing to the...
Richard Florida maps out the biggest megaregions, multi-city economic centers, and concentrations of workers based on personality type in these maps from his latest book, "Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life." by BNET Editorial
The City of Eugene, is Oregon's second largest city that covers approximately 41.5 square miles and is home to more than 140,000 people. Emerging Solutions assisted the City with upgrading their Financials 7.02 system to Version 8.4, going live on July 7th, 2003. After the upgrade project, the City asked...
Blockbuster made a bid out of nowhere for Circuit City, and when they hesitated, Blockbuster took it public. After prodding, Circuit City has finally opened its books to the impudent movie retailer. But that still doesn’t answer the main question – what exactly does Circuit City have that they want?
Designed by Thomas Hacker and Associates Architects Inc. and constructed by Drake Construction, both of Portland, Oregon, the Beaverton City Library has a strong civic character and is a key element in the development of a new urban center for the City of Beaverton. Innovative use of curved glulam columns...
Located in Butte County, California, the city of Chico was founded in 1860 by General John Bidwell. Chico maintains an historic downtown, a wide variety of services and family oriented neighborhoods. Inspired by the growing number of California cities and counties that have successfully embraced solar power, Chico lawmakers and...
Central to strategies for and involvement in the inner city real estate market is their ability to attract people. A central part of the overall metropolis of a place, the inner city is the mechanism that mediates the larger top-down global concerns and the more intimate, personal concerns of day-to-day...
To no one's surprise, really, Blockbuster Inc. called off its proposed merger with Circuit City, but Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes says he still likes the idea of combining media with electronics and will pursue it in other ways. And I still like the notion that electronics turnaround specialist Mark Wattles...
The City of Orlando, through the office of Housing and Community Development in the Planning and Development Department, constructed an environmentally friendly demonstration home called the "Orlando House: Florida's Future", on an infill site within the city. The City requested FSEC assistance to assure the home met Building America goals...
Marketing techniques are often used to help towards the transformation of a city into a post-industrial centre of tourism, culture and redevelopment. In addition, urban tourism is playing an increasingly important role in decisions taken by local government authorities regarding economic development strategies. In the current framework of the globalised...
1) It's the original mega-city. 2) It's the model for the future of cities. 3) It's going to be big for business. That's the theme of First Stop in the New World, given a thumbs up by 800CEORead. Of course, 800CEORead...
Claus Vistesen submits: It is almost too easy, on a day like this, to paraphrase Shakespeare's old play about deceit and greed in the city of Helsinore. This time however it is not the venerable city of Helsinore which is under the spotlight but another old Danish city or...
A large city function was to be held at a local High School Auditorium. The city was faced with several challenges. The first challenge was the actual size of the event...2700 people for three days. The next challenge was the facility itself. The Auditorium was not air conditioned and with...
This presentation discusses the information technology strategic plan for the city of San Diego. The study presented here contains information collected from a focus group session with the Science and Technology Commission. It solicits input from the City’s external stakeholders and business leaders on overall requirements, issues, and opportunities related...
The City Engineer job description template includes the following job summary: This is a highly responsible administrative, technical, and supervisory position conducting engineering activities and related projects. Work involves responsibility for the planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating activities of engineering, city planning, building inspections, transportation, property maintenance, and solid waste....
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Circuit City Stores CC has received buyout interest from several potential strategic and financial bidders, including movie-rental company Blockbuster Inc BBI, and a sale agreement could be announced over the next month, an investor said on Tuesday....
Beautiful historic Vallejo has long been at the forefront of communities championing renewable energy and conservation, from solar and wind power, to clean air vehicles. Vallejo, always interested in deploying reliable renewable resources and energy conservation techniques, needed a cost-effective solution to reduce the operating costs associated with running the...
National City, one of the nation's largest financial institutions wanted to meet the demanding regulatory requirements of federal lending and investment laws. The company partnered with SAS. SAS automated the data management, allowing for quick and efficient analysis of millions of customer details. As a result, National City obtained tremendous...
How to Find the Best City to Work and Liveplace to liveThis article assumes you have the money and time to check out the places you'd like to live...not sure where this person's head is at, but the real people in life can't even afford a real vacation let alone...
