Sentences with phrase «city developer who»

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The New York Central accomplished this by selling its «air rights» — a new thing at the time — to real estate developers who built neoclassical apartment towers that still line the city's Street of Dreams, the most exclusive residential enclave in America.

Building homes in overseas markets like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia or New York City and marketing them to investment - minded buyers back home has become a cottage industry for China's larger property developers, who also promote the strategy as a way to help export China's industrial overcapacity.

He has remained focused on creating a balanced approach to dealing with the city's growth challenges while taking on wealthy suburban developers, who declared war on him before his landslide re-election.

I fell in love with the city, graphic design and my husband Wes, who is a web developer.

In the past, Heiden's clients have mostly been developers who are new to the game in the city or otherwise don't meet the criteria to secure bank loans.

This led farmers who wanted to sell their land to developers to ask Lockport, a city not under county zoning jurisdiction, to annex about 2,200 acres.

Ferguson concluded that Maggie Daley's charity was benefiting from its ties to City Hall, but he stopped short of saying those developers who were awarded taxpayer subsidies were buying influence with the former mayor.

New York City has a rental control system designed to prevent the wealthy from exploiting the poor (with mixed results) and many other places in the U.S. have affordable housing system that creates some stock of affordable priced, price controlled housing at the expense of developer who want to sell market priced housing.

«It's hard for a business person who has business interests in New York City to tell the mayor no, especially real estate developers,» Peebles said.

Currently it mandates developers who build in rezoned areas of the city pick from one of three options for affordable housing: 25 percent of their units rented to those making, on average, 60 percent of the Area Median Income, 30 percent at 80 percent of the AMI or 30 percent at 120 percent.

The governor undercut the mayor by arguing that state law should obligate developers — who endorsed Mr. de Blasio's ideas — to pay construction workers prevailing wages, a requirement Mr. de Blasio asserted would cost the city dearly needed new below - market apartments.

The state recently issued a request for proposals seeking developers to construct two or three facilities in the city and partner with a handful of anchor tenants who would employ an estimated 1,500 to 2,000.

But Peebles, a Democrat who's considering running for de Blasio's job in the next election, said it was a mistake for the mayor to target developers eager for access to City Hall.

Also getting in on the action was bombastic developer Donald Trump, who gave $ 250 to Bronx City Councilman James Vacca in April.

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.

If elected mayor, Commisso said he would work with the Common Council to determine the best course of action on evaluating all tax exemptions in the city and would place a self - imposed ban on accepting campaign donations from developers who receive exemptions.

«We want to make sure that people are aware that the developers of this city and this Buffalo boom are the ones who are directly causing the displacement and gentrification that has people across this city suffering,» Washington said.

The panel — which is composed of Law, former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paul Francis, Dennis Glazer and Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz — has heard presentations over the last several months from developers who want to build resort - style casinos in three regions of the state north New York City: The Catskills / Hudson Valley, the Capital Region and the Finger Lakes / Southern Tier.

The senator, who represents Queens Village, St. Albans and Jamaica, is accused of conspiring in November 2012 with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer to bribe city Republican leaders in order to win Wilson - Pakula certificates.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development never followed up to see whether developers who got discounts on city land in exchange for building...

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Friday announced a settlement with a shady real - estate group that bought city nursing homes and flipped them to developers who sought to convert them into luxury condos.

Sean Ryan [email protected] A developer is trying to gain the trust of people who say the Hide House project threatens the neighborhood's peace but is getting rammed through Milwaukee City Hall anyway.

Paladino, a Buffalo developer who leases miles of office space to state government agencies, was instrumental in getting the Empire Zone program expanded from Buffalo's inner city to its office tower downtown.

The messy end of session also includes agreements on short extenders — one additional year for mayoral control of the New York City schools, and a six month extension of a tax break for real estate developers who build some affordable housing.

No charges have been filed, but prosecutors are examining «substantial payments» from a tax firm that has helped some of New York City's biggest developers (who double as the state's top political donors) reduce the property tax bills on their holdings.

Three other defendants were also named: Louis Ciminelli, a Buffalo developer who's in charge of a solar - panel factory to be built in that city; and Michael Laipple and Kevin Schuler, executives for Ciminelli's firm.

Developers and powerful businessmen who had business before the city like supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis ($ 50,000) and Alexis Lodde ($ 100,000) also gave mega contributions to the county committees.

A hearing was held to consider whether developers who receive big city grants should pay workers higher wages.

Doctoroff notes that City Hall also managed to overcome objections to the High Line by allowing some of those who owned land under the elevated park to sell their air rights to developers on nonadjoining properties.

The city staffers were charged with accepting more than $ 400,000 from the expediters, who act as middlemen for developers and builders, and from others.

«It's insulting to insinuate that five pastors, all honorable leaders of our city's minority community, don't stand behind the common - sense notion that developers who receive our tax dollars need to employ a fair number of individuals who are paying those taxes.»

They also predict that if the Manhattan developer becomes president, he'd work from the White House to turn New York away from the anti-business, tax - and - spend, «progressive» Democratic politicians, including Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who now dominate City Hall and the state Capitol.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio came to Albany to meet with Cuomo and legislative leaders to push for reform and renewal of the city's rent control laws — which impact around two million people — and a related property tax break for developers who set aside some of their new dwelling s for affordable housCity Mayor Bill de Blasio came to Albany to meet with Cuomo and legislative leaders to push for reform and renewal of the city's rent control laws — which impact around two million people — and a related property tax break for developers who set aside some of their new dwelling s for affordable houscity's rent control laws — which impact around two million people — and a related property tax break for developers who set aside some of their new dwelling s for affordable housing.

The State Assembly in 2007 voted to allow Forest City to take advantage of the controversial 421a program, which gives tax abatements to developers who make 20 percent of their building's units affordable, even though Ratner didn't technically qualify.

Developer Samir Tawil, who sued the city in 2010 over another matter, told the OCIDA board he thought the county would be «more open - minded» about his project.

The list includes 23 big - bucks donors who got appointed to municipal boards and committees, eight developers who benefited from government actions or policy changes, six political allies put on the city payroll and five business owners who scored lucrative contracts.

George has also received millions from New York City real estate developers and from Leonard Litwin, who was at the very core of the Dean Skelos corruption scandal.

«This is just the state fucking with the city,» said one residential developer who is not involved in the project, arguing that the state withholding support for the project made it easier for local NIMBYs to challenge it.

Second, the current upstate Senators are bought and paid for by NYC interests — in particular the real estate developers who want to keep rents high in the city.

In order to increase the profits for the developers that his organization represents, he wants the city to relax the rules for obtaining a license to operate a crane in New York City so contractors can bring in inexperienced, non-union crane operators who will work for less money than union crane operatcity to relax the rules for obtaining a license to operate a crane in New York City so contractors can bring in inexperienced, non-union crane operators who will work for less money than union crane operatCity so contractors can bring in inexperienced, non-union crane operators who will work for less money than union crane operators.

Throughout his early career as a real estate developer in New York City, Republican 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump routinely gave large campaign contributions to politicians who held sway over his projects and he worked with mob - controlled companies and unions to build them.

The de Blasio administration floated a compromise with the developer who wants to turn a vacant Bronx armory into a $ 350 million ice hockey and skating center and believes City Hall is blocking the project.

His decision to drop out thrust Ms. Malliotakis into the role of Republican front - runner after little more than two months of campaigning and offered an opening for outsider candidates like Roque De La Fuente, a San Diego developer who recently moved to New York City to run for mayor as a Republican.

Howe hooked up with COR after former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young, who is close to the Cuomo family suggested on election night in 2010 that he could help the developers get state assistance with projects they wanted to do, including redevelopment of the city's Inner Harbor area.

The task force is a Syracuse - based coalition of community groups and individuals who have pushed developers seeking tax exemptions in the city to commit to training and hiring underprivileged city residents.

De Blasio cites the city's 21 % poverty rate as proof of this, and he campaigned on closing the gap by pushing real estate developers to build or preserve 200,000 affordable homes and creating a universal pre-K program for the poor, funded by raising taxes on those who make a $ 500,000 or more.

Smith, along with Mayor Brown and Deputy Mayor Steve Casey, have been sued by a Cleveland developer who contends they were part of a pay - to - play scheme involving a proposed housing project on the city's East Side.

«I don't think rent control is good for the city,» the developer, who has hundreds of units in the pipeline, said.

Staffers with the city Department of Investigation and city comptroller quizzed Morales last March and April about two real - estate transactions that allegedly benefited developers and lobbyists who gave donations to the mayor's campaign and the mayor's nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

Without a hint of irony, the same Mayor who has twisted himself into a pretzel, bending over backwards to accommodate developers like Cappelli and Forest City / Ratner, was suddenly a stickler for process and immovable deadlines.