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ESI Welcomes Three New Senior Advisors
Econsult Solutions is excited to welcome Suzanne Biemiller, Joseph M. Casey, and Lloyd Russow as our newest Senior Advisors. Together they bring…
June’s Philadelphia Housing Index Remains Flat, at All-Time High
The Philadelphia Housing Index remained flat in June, though prices remain at an all-time high. The apparent slowdown of last month persisted,…
Step By Step: How to Create an ‘R’ Shiny App
In a previous Step By Step by my fellow analyst James Midkiff, readers were introduced to the statistical software ‘R’, and how…
ESI Announces Steve Wray as New Vice President
Philadelphia (July 13, 2017) – Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI) is proud to announce Steve Wray, former Executive Director of the Economy League…
ESI is Proud to Announce Daniel Miles as Vice President and Associate Principal
We are excited to announce that effective July 1, 2017, Daniel Miles has been promoted to Vice President and Associate Principal of…
The Effect of Handing out Candidate Listings at Polling Places
In this Present Value post, ESI analyzes the effect of handing out listings of candidate recommendations outside of polling places, using work…
ESI’s Favorite Buildings in Philly
It seems as if each day passes with a new crane being erected in Philadelphia. With the city amidst a building boom,…
The Philadelphia Housing Index Flattens in May
Though the Market Remains at Record Highs After a huge March and April for Philadelphia housing sales, May prices settled and the…
ESI is Proud to Sponsor the Philadelphia History Museum’s Summer Down the Shore
ESI is proud to sponsor the Philadelphia History Museum's Cocktails in the Courtyard: Summer Down the Shore event on Thursday, June 22…
Main Streets Evolving and (Mostly) Thriving
Hardly a day goes by without news of a major department store, big box retailer, or popular chain store scaling back or…
Why City Governments Need Design
What if the City of Philadelphia had a Deputy Mayor of Design? I have been intrigued with this idea since Kyung-Won Chung…
Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker Opens Urban Economic Policy Conference
Suffering from a structural lack of funding, infrastructure has been neglected for decades. But, presented as…
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