blight

The View From Ridge: Neighborhood Change Along Philadelphia’s Ridge Avenue

April 15, 2016 / Comments Off on The View From Ridge: Neighborhood Change Along Philadelphia’s Ridge Avenue

Once a vibrant commercial corridor, the built environment of Ridge Avenue in North Philadelphia has suffered from decades of economic decline and neglect. Recently, the neighborhood just west of Broad Street known as Francisville is on the rise, with several vacant and blighted properties being converted into a mix of affordable housing and upscale market-rate […]

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The Economic Case for Fixing Blight

March 25, 2016 / Comments Off on The Economic Case for Fixing Blight

Vacancy and blight can be found corroding property values and the quality of life of neighborhood residents. There are many housing studies that measure the impacts of such negative circumstances occurring in a neighborhood. For example, many papers have evaluated the neighborhood impact of foreclosures, which are a major cause of vacancy and blight. It is […]

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ESI to present at KAB’s Annual Conference in Orlando, Fl.

January 28, 2016 / Comments Off on ESI to present at KAB’s Annual Conference in Orlando, Fl.

Lee Huang, ESI Senior Vice President and Principal, and Daniel Miles, Director, will present February 1st-3rd, 2016 at Keep America Beautiful’s Annual Conference in Orlando, Fl. Following up on the national literature review of blight in America, a consulting team led by Econsult Solutions, Inc. has produced a user-friendly calculator tool that provides an estimate of the cost of […]

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Lee Huang Presentation On Urban Blight and Historic Preservation

October 21, 2015 / Comments Off on Lee Huang Presentation On Urban Blight and Historic Preservation

On Thursday, October 15th 2015, ESI Senior Vice President and Principal Lee Huang gave a presentation to The University of Pennsylvania School of Design’s Historic Preservation Studio on urban blight and historic preservation. The audience consisted of 2nd and 3rd year graduate students at UPenn as well as Fon Wang, principal at the architecture studio Ballinger, who has provided architecture, […]

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Recap of Sustainability and Transportation Panel at ESI and Drexel’s Joint Conference

May 28, 2015 / Comments Off on Recap of Sustainability and Transportation Panel at ESI and Drexel’s Joint Conference

The second and final panel of Thursday’s “City and the Environment: Topics in Urban Economic Policy” joint conference, which was sponsored by Drexel University’s School of Economics and Econsult Solutions and was held on Drexel’s campus at Gerri. C. Lebow Hall, featured a discussion on the current and future states of sustainability and urban transportation. […]

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ESI and Keep America Beautiful Release Literature Review on Community Impacts of Blighted Properties

May 27, 2015 / Comments Off on ESI and Keep America Beautiful Release Literature Review on Community Impacts of Blighted Properties

ESI and Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s leading nonprofit that focuses on helping every community become a clean, green and beautiful place to live, have released their “Charting the Multiple Meanings of Blight: A National Literature Review on Addressing the Community Impacts of Blighted Properties,” the first phase of a new long-term initiative to study, […]

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