Sentences with phrase «city building and construction»

Gary LaBarbera, President of the New York City Building and Construction Trades Council said, «Unions have long been the bedrock of the middle class in New York City and throughout the United States.

Not exact matches

A new $ 32.1 million bus - only bridge will be built in the CBD to ease congestion and get buses out of the city faster, with construction set to begin early next year.

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.

The 2.5 million - square - foot (232,000 - square - meter) building would be the first major project under New York City's Midtown East rezoning plan, which encourages new office construction in the area, the bank and Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement Wednesday.

It ended up as that city's second - highest, after Willis Tower, and in a flashback to his old ways he personally guaranteed $ 40 million on a Deutsche Bank construction loan to build it.

Of course, the biggest question will be how to win over city and county governments to allow further construction of such a structure and which startup will prevail in the bid to build our human vacuum tube of the future.

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» said Amazon vice president Drew Herdener.

More recently, Blackstone Mortgage announced the closing of a $ 1.8 billion financing for Tishman Speyer's construction of The Spiral, a 2.8 million square foot trophy office building 28 % preleased to Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and located in the Hudson Yards district of New York City.

Housing is becoming increasingly expensive to build due to government fees and regulations on building in most cities, and government programs merely subsidize this process at a cost to the taxpayers; and rent control has been a disaster because that immediately kills off any new construction and reduces the incentive for land owners and landlords to maintain their property because their income is fixed.

Along with a look at the construction and development of the project, they also posted an epic, interactive panoramic image of New York City, taken from the building's peak.

This piece of history could have been lost forever, but through the efforts of Western Specialty Contractors, general contractor Beal Derkenne Construction and Slingshot Architecture, this building will stand for many more years to come and continue to be enjoyed by the city's residents,» said Western Des Moines Branch Manager Tom Longer.

But when you're spending $ 26 million and building Windy City's largest craft brewery with one project manager, an engineer and a local construction crew, you're allowed a few digressions.

First of all: Every Vertical Farm is different and Construction and Operation costs depend on city location, availability, technology used, local laws and Policy, energy source, climate, type of building and many other variables.

The restaurant's namesake — who still owns the building — slung breakfast sandwiches for construction workers and city employees for nearly 30 years.

The project is a collaboration between Cuyahoga County Council, Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council and the City of Cleveland.

City and park officials cleared the way Wednesday for construction of what would be the nation's tallest building.

At 11:30 a.m., low - wage tenants and workers and members of Real Affordability for All and building and construction unions call for real affordable housing and good union jobs from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Hall Park, near Broadway and Park Place, Manhattan.

Cleanup and construction work will begin by midsummer on the initial phase of the planned Elmwood Crossing redevelopment of the former Women & Children's Hospital site in Elmwood Village, now that the development team has received final city approval for the first building.

The city supports a bill, passed by the State Assembly Monday, that would allow NYCHA to use the design - build model, which streamlines projects by combining the design and construction stages into one contract.

The recent opening of the first span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge was widely praised, but while the construction project benefited from an innovative design - build project delivery method, many other projects in the city and the state do not have the authorization to do so.

The new City Council leaders on all matters real estate, construction, housing and buildings will discuss their priorities, pending bills and newly enacted legislation.

He said the city needs «a new, comprehensive approach that builds needed affordable housing citywide, while also offering construction workers good middle - class wages and benefits.»

A strong labor advocate with deep experience championing union rights, Jessica worked with Build Up NYC to fight for construction, hotel, and maintenance workers in New York City.

[139] The Hope City project is expected to be completed in 2016 and is estimated to cost $ US 10 billion in construction; [139] and one of its towers will become Africa's tallest building.

ROCKAWAY PARK — The head of the failed city - run Build It Back program should be fired or resign after the controversial rebuilding debacle proved to be a «boondoggle» of bureaucratic red tape and poor construction work, a local elected official said.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.

The New Year's Eve event will be hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Local 29, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, Central Park Conservancy, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Municipal Art Society of New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Historical Society, the New York Mets, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Transit Museum, Partnership for New York City, Real Estate Board of New York, Regional Plan Association, NYC Sandhogs Local 147, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

Not only would design - build save taxpayers over $ 113 million and decrease construction time by a crucial two years, but without it, massive trucks would be compelled to travel through Downtown Brooklyn — the City's third largest commercial district — because the BQE would be unable to support their weight.

Several trade associations and unions associated with construction made large donations to governor's campaign committee, including $ 25,000 checks from the New York City Council of Carpenters and New York State Laborers, $ 12,500 from the Building Trades Employers Association and $ 5,000 from the Associated General Contractors.

He'd created a string of real estate corporations (including Emerge Construction, Emerge Real Properties, LLC, and Emerge Historic Residential Community I, II and III) and planned to focus on inner city development and renovating historic buildings into «affordable» housing

Today, Mr. de Blasio seeks to pass a mandatory inclusionary zoning plan for the entire city, and has wedded it to a set of alterations to existing codes that would let developers build without concern for creating parking or keeping their construction in context with the area.

Decades - Old Rusty School Trailers at P.S. 19 in Corona to be Removed New Physical Addition to School Building Slated for Construction QUEENS, NY — Parents, elected and city officials today together announced plans underway to permanently expand capacity that's been long overdue at overcrowded P.S. 19Q in Corona, the largest elementary school in New York -LSB-...]

Developers argue the tax break is necessary for the city to build affordable housing and meet Mr. de Blasio's ambitious construction goals, especially as the cost of land skyrockets.

According to the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC), an organization consisting of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions representing 100,000 members in New York City, project labor agreements (PLAs) with these terms for four projects valued at $ 345 million are in the process of being executed by unions in the industry.

Bronx, New York — New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC), join Monadnock Development, Signature Urban Properties, and GTIS Partners for a ribbon - cutting ceremony to mark the completion of construction of the first two of ten planned buildings at Compass Residences in the Bronx.

Stevenson pocketed thousands of dollars to help pressure Con Edison into expediting the extension of a gas line, recruit seniors to attend a Westchester Avenue center, liaise with the Department of Buildings, and draft a legislative moratorium on the construction of any more adult day care centers throughout New York City, documents show.

The de Blasio administration has reached a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, covering $ 3.5 billion of work and repairs at the New York City Housing Authority over the next three years.

Built by the City ofNew Yorkbetween 1909 and 1912 in the last years of its Catskills reservoir construction, the tunnel was designed to divert water from theMain Streetand Tannery creeks into the Esopus Creek, which the city had «surcharged» (taken water from) to feed the Ashokan ReservCity ofNew Yorkbetween 1909 and 1912 in the last years of its Catskills reservoir construction, the tunnel was designed to divert water from theMain Streetand Tannery creeks into the Esopus Creek, which the city had «surcharged» (taken water from) to feed the Ashokan Reservcity had «surcharged» (taken water from) to feed the Ashokan Reservoir.

Two city building inspectors and an asbestos investigator were among 14 people charged in three alleged construction schemes involving bribery and corruption, authorities said Wednesday.

Finally, REBNY and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York — the umbrella organization for the city's union hard hats — reached a framework agreement on issues such as wages and the length and value of the tax abatement in November 2016.

Introduced at the end of July by City Councilman Mark Levine, the bill has since gained the support of 12 fellow councilmembers through the lobbying efforts of Levine's staff and parents at P.S. 163, a West 97th Street elementary school that would neighbor a construction site under a plan to build a 20 - story nursing home development.

But that push, which is meant to drive construction deeper into the outer boroughs, will also require the use of city, state and federal subsides to ensure developers are willing to build in some neighborhoods.

The administration will explore other uses for the city building where the state has invested more than $ 5 million and construction is already in progress.

Construction of new office space in New York City is on track to hit a 25 - year high this year and almost double that built in 2014, reflecting increasing employment and low interest rates, according to a new report by the New York Building Congress.

The group, called NY Jobs Now, includes Heather Bricetti, the president and CEO of the state Business Council, along with labor leaders like the AFL - CIO's Mario Cilento, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Gary LaBarbera of Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

Due to agreements struck by the Cuomo administration with the state's American Indian tribes and the enabling legislation approved by lawmakers earlier this year, the casinos built in the first phase of construction will be limited to north of the New York City area: The Capital Region, the Southern Tier and the Catskills.