Sentences with phrase «ambitious city building»

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390 Madison is the most ambitious re-massing of an office building in New York City history.

FCR's assets total about $ 11 billion and include projects that formed its legacy as one of the city's most ambitious developers: MetroTech in Brooklyn, the Frank Gehry - Designed 8 Spruce Street and the New York Times Building at 620 Eighth Avenue.

Such buildings often represent the most formal and ambitious efforts of those who once populated America's towns and cities.

To build every venue from scratch may have been ambitious, but to stage a Winter Games in a subtropical city in the age of global warming seems delusional.

How the record champion Italian club is building on their impressive domestic success with an ambitious new project in New York City

Now that the Naperville City Council has given its verbal — and financial — blessing to build the city's third library on the southwest side, library officials are forging ahead with an ambitious time line to open a 93,000 - square - foot recreation campus that it will, at least temporarily, share with the city's Park District by the fall of 2City Council has given its verbal — and financial — blessing to build the city's third library on the southwest side, library officials are forging ahead with an ambitious time line to open a 93,000 - square - foot recreation campus that it will, at least temporarily, share with the city's Park District by the fall of 2city's third library on the southwest side, library officials are forging ahead with an ambitious time line to open a 93,000 - square - foot recreation campus that it will, at least temporarily, share with the city's Park District by the fall of 2city's Park District by the fall of 2002.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today unveiled a $ 41.1 billion affordable housing plan that city officials touted as the most ambitious in the city and nation's history, and which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years.

Signal your intent to build more homes by developing a more ambitious strategic plan for the city region

QUEENS — Power - hungry state Sen. Malcolm Smith schemed with a Queens councilman and GOP bosses to build a «corridor of corruption» in an ambitious attempt to line their pockets with cash and get him elected the mayor of New York City, federal authorities said Tuesday.

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.

But it would be difficult for any one single program, no matter how ambitious, to upend New York City's long - held reputation as one of the toughest places in the world to build.

Community voices rang out in opposition to the plan to lengthen exit ramps, saying the new ramps would torpedo the city's ambitious plan to build housing, parks, office buildings and a hotel on the waterfront, completed last summer when the City Council and the Mayor signed off on rezoning the Lower Grand Concoucity's ambitious plan to build housing, parks, office buildings and a hotel on the waterfront, completed last summer when the City Council and the Mayor signed off on rezoning the Lower Grand ConcouCity Council and the Mayor signed off on rezoning the Lower Grand Concourse.

However, the ambitious project by the federal government to build a smart city, on a 1,260 hectares piece of virgin land located several kilometers Southeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja is embroiled in several controversies, all bordering on alleged fraud.

The New York Times: «Cuomo, who should be using his power to make New York City more hospitable to working - class and middle - class families, has instead slipped a little poison into his executive budget that could cripple the city's ambitious efforts to build affordable housing... It's not a stretch to call this sabotage (of de Blasio's agenda).&raCity more hospitable to working - class and middle - class families, has instead slipped a little poison into his executive budget that could cripple the city's ambitious efforts to build affordable housing... It's not a stretch to call this sabotage (of de Blasio's agenda).&racity's ambitious efforts to build affordable housing... It's not a stretch to call this sabotage (of de Blasio's agenda).»

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an ambitious plan on Tuesday to build or open 90 new homeless shelters in New York City over the next five years, with the aim of opening 20 new shelters in 2017 and 20 more the following year, vowing slow and incremental progress in tackling the city's homelessness probCity over the next five years, with the aim of opening 20 new shelters in 2017 and 20 more the following year, vowing slow and incremental progress in tackling the city's homelessness probcity's homelessness problem.

NEW YORK CITY — The mayor announced an ambitious affordable housing plan during his State of the City speech, complete with 80,000 new units by 2024 and six neighborhoods where developers will be required to build affordable units.

As part of its ambitious expansion of the city's pre-kindergarten program, the de Blasio administration is issuing millions of dollars to community - based organizations (C.B.O.s), hundreds of which have open Department of Buildings violations, a review by Capital has found.

EAST HARLEM — City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weCity address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for wecity - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weeks.

The building is a small part of what Mayor Bill de Blasio has called the most ambitious affordable housing plan in the city's history.

In 1998, the final year of the ersatz stories, Tim described the ambitious plan of Justin Vorfun, the hot - tub - loving CEO of a Hollywood Hills engineering firm, to install 300 building - size bellows around Los Angeles to blow the city's famously bad smog out to sea.

NEW YORK — The federal stimulus package and the city's ambitious «green building» initiative should provide a jobs bonanza for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) specialists, city officials said yesterday.

In keeping with their staggering wealth, they harbour ambitious ideas for remaking cities, including plans for structures that are larger than anything ever built on Earth.

Each city is designing its own ambitious agenda, created through a Children's Cabinet with the support of a site - based consultant, to develop a plan for change that is inclusive of the community and builds on existing initiatives.

Before joining New Leaders, Desravines served as senior counselor to the chancellor of New York City's public school system, where he built support for the district's ambitious reform agenda.

Set within the ambitious Al Habtoor City project, the Emirate's first fully - integrated urban resort, W Dubai — Al Habtoor City rises 33 stories above the vibrant Sheikh Zayed Road, overlooking the newly built Dubai Water Canal with views of dramatic sunsets over the Arabian Gulf.

Consequently, the vacant building faced demolition until ambitious plans were developed during the late 1980s in preparation for Glasgow's year as City of Culture 1990.

It is also the kind of ambitious fantasy that artists rarely get to execute, in the same category as Christo and Jean - Claude's 20 - year attempt to suspend six miles of fabric panels over the Arkansas River (a project he abandoned last year) or Michael Heizer's colossal «City,» a mile - and - a-half-long sculpture in the Nevada desert that the artist has been building since 1972 and which the public has never seen and perhaps never will.

Like other small museums nationwide that are under pressure to build attendance and revenue, the Bronx Museum of the Arts has been trying to broaden its reach beyond its New York City borough, with a new building, a free - admission policy and ambitious projects that have international appeal, including several involving Cuba.

This ambitious exhibition spans two gallery spaces — in the Diego Rivera Gallery, Pereda has erected Change the world or go home (2009 - 2015), a 24 - foot tall fluorescent scaffolding structure in front of the iconic work The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931), simultaneously illuminating and obscuring one of the institution's most - treasured and historically significant works.

The New Yorker reports on the ambitious multi-venue exhibition and the decades - long effort to preserve symbols of the community's history and fund the $ 34 million, city - owned building.

At the foot of these buildings, a new sculpture park is planned (with 30 public artworks by, among others, Rossella Biscotti, Adelita Husni - Bey, Shilpa Gupta, Haroon Mirza, Marlie Mul, Amalia Pica and Wilfredo Prieto) provided that the city's next mayor, to be elected in June, signs off on the ambitious plan.

The other focuses on New York City, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council Speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are pursuing an ambitious plan to cut energy use and carbon - dioxide emissions by the city's huge assortment of older buildings (nice map at this liCity, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council Speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are pursuing an ambitious plan to cut energy use and carbon - dioxide emissions by the city's huge assortment of older buildings (nice map at this liCity Council Speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are pursuing an ambitious plan to cut energy use and carbon - dioxide emissions by the city's huge assortment of older buildings (nice map at this licity's huge assortment of older buildings (nice map at this link).

The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.

The building, developed in partnership with the Hudson Companies and Related Companies and designed by New York City - based Handel Architects, is part of Cornell University's Tech Campus, an ambitious project on Roosevelt Island, which sits in the East River sandwiched between Manhattan's Midtown to the west and Queens» Long Island City to the east.

Renovating New York City's buildings to high - performance standards when they change hands is crucial to the City reaching its ambitious goals of an 80 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

As Mayor Murray noted, «Buildings are the second largest source of climate pollution in Seattle and reducing their emissions is critical to meeting our city's ambitious climate goals.»

More than 200 cities are now pursuing ambitious plans to cut carbon pollution, spark innovation, and build a clean, safe, and secure future for their residents.

GHG Protocol is working to give cities the standards and tools they need to measure their emissions, build more effective emissions reduction strategies, set measurable and more ambitious emission reduction goals, and to track their progress more accurately and comprehensively.

The end - goal is even more ambitious: wireless charging strips that are built into roads, so that EVs can top up their batteries as they actively move around the city.

The managing director is down to earth, inspiring and extremely ambitious and is keen to speak to tech or general recruiters who are looking to relocate and build a career for themselves in Melbourne - arguably the best city in Australia!

Being a new Hamilton based realtor company, their main focus is on the building of the ambitious city and giving it the opportunity to live up to its long held nickname.