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Downtown Business Association uses grant funds to strengthen security patrols

  • April 12, 2024

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Downtown Business Association wants to stop the trend of smashed windows and plywood apart of downtown businesses by ramping up patrols with Citiguard Security Services. The DBA got a grant of $50,000 towards the project and some businesses are seeing progress. Downtown Bakersfield is getting more beautiful these days and

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Property

China Is Trying to Fix Its Property Market. The Outlook Isn’t Bright.

  • December 31, 2023

Liu Jianguo, a 47-year-old teacher in the second-tier city of Guiyang, considers himself lucky. He lives in a sliver of China where the property market isn’t withering. “I have friends in the big cities,” he said. “They are aware they’re in a bad place for buying or selling real estate.” New home prices in China’s

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