Sentences with phrase «century city lot»

The two executives spoke with Vanity Fair at their offices in early December, at a time when the Disney - Fox deal was just a rumor — but one propelling nervous conversations around their Century City lot.

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For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.

Opponents of a proposed plan to build a tot lot and dog - run in historic Palmer Square urged city officials Monday to look into constructing the amenities on vacant land instead of altering the square's 19th Century character.

The committee unanimously approved the Chicago Park District plan over the objections of residents who fear the tot lot will alter the square's 19th Century character and set a precedent for carving up the city's boulevard system.

And there is a lot of money being spent as cities whose storm sewers date to the early 20th century have struggled to clean up discharges into waterways from underground networks of pipes that have often never been mapped.

Katie Aselton attended The Paley Center for Media's 2013 benefit gala honouring FX Networks with the Paley Prize for Innovation & Excellence at Fox Studio Lot in Century City, California yesterday evening.

Sipping a to - go herbal tea in the back of a hotel bar not far from the Fox studio lot in Century City, Sarah Paulson is blond, smiling and thoroughly modern.

Fox had no idea it had a goldmine on its hands and was in dire straits needing a lifeline after having sold half the studio lot (now Century City) to complete its earlier fiasco Cleopatra.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

From its centuries - old stone buildings that look like they were transported straight from France, to its many museums, this charming city of about half a million has a lot to offer to visitors.

Rising 64 metres above the azure blue sea, the castle and city walls envelope gorgeous windy cobbled stone streets, which are throbbing with the memories of centuries gone by, but at the same time are home to lots of little shops.

Our neighborhood is very central to Blouberg beaches, Blouberg kite surfing, Century City Mall, Durbanville wine farms, lots parks surrounding the area.

The departure was short - lived, however, ending when Hoptman returned to the city as a senior curator at the New Museum, bringing in works by painters like Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, and Tomma Abts while also organizing seminal exhibitions including «Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century» — the influential show of provisional - looking sculpture that famously included a lot of paint — and «Younger than Jesus,» the first iteration of the museum's Triennial.

Tracing their travels to Mecca, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Senegal, the photos seek to uncover and engage with the particular and unstable memories of each location — the birthplace of Islam in Mecca, inaccessible to most non-believers, and now paved over with parking lots and luxury hotel chains; the sacred sites of Jerusalem, fought over, destroyed and restored time and again for centuries; the ostensibly liberal cities of Western Europe, where paranoia, surveillance and religious profiling are becoming the new normal; and Dakar, where the legacies of slavery and colonialism gave rise to unique Islamic identities and practices, which are increasingly under assault by globalizing forces.

This is also a place where a lot can happen, and I think it's destined now in the next 20 years to be the lead city for the 21st century, mainly because we have gone through a lot of trauma and sorted it out.

That's a lot of overwrought guff and waffle to avoid the fact that the countries that plan on ruling the roost as the 21st century develops don't particularly want their cities swathed in a brown - coal smog, are betting big on green energy, and don't care too much about market rates.

That part of the lot now forms the business district Century City.

Century - old Victorian homes line many of the streets around town, and the ones that are for sale are priced incredibly low because of the towns proximity to the nearest large city (it's a 30 minute drive) and because they are in need of lots and lots of love.