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<h3 class="contentheading">Press Release</h3>
 
<h2>The Rain of Pain: Vacant and Abandoned Commercial Properties in Your Downtown
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<p class="body"><b>A team of experts from the National League of Cities provides practical recommendations for keeping troubled or abandoned property productive.
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<p class="body">(Boonton, NJ, December 15, 2010) &mdash; Amidst the devastating impacts of the housing foreclosure tsunami, the next wave has hit the commercial property market. There is less public attention, but problems are growing and local leaders are left to deal with the damage.

<p class="body">In the December issue of <A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com/dix.php" class="linkc" target="_blank"><em>Downtown Idea Exchange</em></a>, a team of experts from the National League of Cities provides practical recommendations for keeping troubled or abandoned property productive.

<p class="body">To read the full article "The Rain of Pain: Vacant and abandoned commercial properties in your downtown," visit the Downtown Research & Development Center and click on the link, <A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com/perspectives.php" class="linkc" target="_blank">Perspectives Articles</a>.


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<p class="body"><b>About the Downtown Research & Development Center</b>
 
<p class="body">For over 50 years, the Downtown Research & Development Center has acted as the information clearinghouse on practical strategies and tactics for revitalizing the hearts of our cities and towns.

<p class="body">The Group\'s main activities include publishing the widely influential <A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com/dix.php" class="linkc" target="_blank"><em>Downtown Idea Exchange</em></a> and <A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com/dpr.php" class="linkc" target="_blank"><em>Downtown Promotion Reporter</em></a> newsletters; publishing relevant books and reports; and operating the DowntownDevelopment.com website.

<p class="body">Website: <A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com/" class="linkc" target="_blank">http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com</a>


   
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