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40 C h a p t e r 7 how project Details affect Outcomes The case study narratives and supporting documents provide a wealth of information that can be of direct use to transportation planners and economic development policy planners. By giving both a project history and a project impact analysis, most of the 100 case studies offer insight into the roles of different agencies, programs, and policies in either reinforcing or limiting the economic impacts observed to follow completion of transportation projects.
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41 mixed-use development. Route 101 fueled the growth of suburban satellite cities such as Glendale and Scottsdale that provided sites and infrastructure for future growth.
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42 older cities anchoring the study corridor. From 1970 to 2001, the populations of the cities of Clarksburg and Parkersburg declined by 33% and 25%, respectively, as residents began to move to fringe locations brought within commuting range by the new highway.
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43 vision of what was possible and appropriate for a 2.5-acre site next to the station that was slated for transit-oriented development. The city's development plan for the site endorsed a mid-rise commercial development of 70,000 square feet, but Tri-Rail, the transit authority and the owner of the station site, favored a development proposal for a mixed-use development of more than 1 million square feet.
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44 • The Alliance Global Logistics Hub Park, which was focused around an intermodal terminal, was spearheaded by Perot Real Estate, who speculatively acquired 17,000 acres near the Fort Worth cargo airport and worked to bring a BNSF Railroad Intermodal Terminal on site. Perot Real Estate donated land and engineering studies for a new $6.8 million highway connecting the industrial park with the Intermodal Yard.
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