Washington D.C. is beating New York City in at least one thing: Keeping our office buildings bustling.
In the past year, New York office rents have dived more than 18 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal, and vacancies are at 11.4 percent.
Figures like these prompted New York Magazine to recently envision reusing vacant city offices [...]

Roughly a month ago, I blogged about a Detroit artist couple trying to recruit other artists to their foreclosure-blighted neighborhood. NPR originally reported the story. Now a similar tale—by the Wall Street Journal-–is coming out of Cleveland, Detroit's fellow midwestern, gray, financially-drained city to the south. The two urban centers are often lumped together when [...]