Tag: London downtown
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‘A box sitting there’ or a place to park your bike downtown? Jury is out
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Big metal containers scattered across London’s downtown last year were cheered as a game-changer for cyclists needing safe places to lock their bikes. But the 18 new bike lockers — ultra-secure cubbies for a pair of bikes that can’t be targeted by thieves in the same way as typical bike locks — were used only…
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100-plus trees felled to make way for bus rapid transit system in core
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Nearly 150 trees were chopped down in London’s core this year ahead of construction for the next phases of the rapid transit system.
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London’s grim core office market may be turning corner: realty firm
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London’s downtown office market may have just bottomed out.
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City hall spent $5M in 2021 on its core-area action plan. Is it working?
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After testing interventions such as ambassadors, street cleaning and a focus on live events, city hall recommends London keep at some of what it’s done to help breathe new life into the core and Old East Village.
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Drastic measures on the table as city targets downtown vacancies
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Expropriation, tax penalties, “proactive rezoning” in London’s downtown. It all spells one thing. City council is getting desperate. A unanimous vote Tuesday to charge ahead with a core area vacancy strategy led to a debate among city politicians about how to encourage revitalization and penalize those holding the area back. Calling downtown London’s “calling card,”…