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Could Flipping Parking Lots Help End Car Dependence?

Miami-based startup REEF Technology made headlines last month when it raised $700 million to buy up parking lots and rapidly transform them into a range of more profitable uses.
An empty parking lot. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Christian has edited StreetsblogMASS since its founding in spring 2019. Before that, he was a data reporter for the Portland Press Herald in Maine. Got tips? Send them to me via Signal, the encrypted messaging app, at 207-310-0728.

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