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Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney is bringing in a group of national experts to help devise a plan to reinvigorate Shockoe Bottom. Members of the Rose Center for Public Leadership, operated by the [...]

The National League of Cities awarded Nashville a 2017 Equitable Development Fellowship. Music City is one of six cities that will receive technical assistance from the Washington, D.C.-based [...]

After a declining first decade of this millennium, Grand Rapids, Michigan, has turned the corner on population growth and development. The city has grown by 4.5 percent this decade, compared to a [...]

In the late 1960s, when Burt Bacharach wrote the most famous song about San Jose, the small city was a sleepy source of nostalgia for someone living in fast-paced LA. Now San Jose is the nation’s [...]

Anchorage, Alaska, describes itself “at the center of the periphery,” an apt expression for a city that is so distant from most of the US it is closer to Beijing than Washington DC. Yet with [...]

The closure of St. Elizabeths, a federal mental hospital in southeast Washington DC, left a gaping hole in the urban fabric in the 1980s. For three decades the hole remained. Public confidence [...]

The Rose Center’s Carlos Delgado talks with The Place Brand Observer blog—a library of research and a collection of case studies on place brand insights, strategies, stories and examples—about [...]

Of the four cities that are involved in the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership’s 2017 fellowship program, the capital of Silicon Valley is the most populous of the bunch. So it might not be [...]

Coming out of the Great Recession, Grand Rapids found itself to be one of the hottest markets in the nation, with new jobs in the health care and technology sectors and a ton of new construction, [...]

The nation’s capital grew by 100,000 residents over the last 15 years to 675,000. It’s quite the turnaround story for a city that lost a quarter of its population during waves of social unrest, [...]