Sentences with phrase «as suburban»

The need for wildlife - friendly backyards is more crucial than ever before, owing to the rapid loss of habitat as suburban subdivisions (and their requisite big - box stores) continue gobbling wildlife habitat across Canada.

But two years later, as the suburban office market started to soften, another speculative building would have been very difficult to finance.

«While a majority of buyers are young professionals, there is also an empty - nester movement as suburban communities, particularly New Jersey suburban communities, have high property taxes, and bridge / transportation costs.

Loans backed by properties in the District and Virginia have helped pull the broader region's delinquency rate up, as the suburban office sector in particular has reported rising delinquency and vacancy rates in recent quarters.

The rising demand for Asian grocery stores, cultural venues and Chinese - owned businesses has drawn investment for ethnic offerings, making life in the Pacific Northwest as convenient and comfortable as a suburban annex of a Chinese city.

«As these suburban bedroom communities grow, the tax burden goes up and puts pressure on the owners of large parcels,» he says.

Now, cities like Philadelphia are likely to offer as much new development as suburban communities.

Surban is defined as a suburban area that has the feel of urban; it is a blend of the best of urban and suburban life.

People in the trading area grew wealthier as the suburban communities north of Dallas flourished during the economic expansion.

Suburban developers are coining the term «urban «burbs» as suburban communities move toward more urban environments that include walkable downtown areas, transit - friendly areas, and mixed housing types.

Spacey may have had his breakout role as a suburban husband in American Beauty, but remember him as a Hollywood studio boss in Swimming with Sharks?

In Australia they have a term for neighborhoods like Candler Park, East Lake, Kirkwood — they're «city suburbs,» as opposed to the Western suburbs, and have urban city issues as well as suburban issues.

The deal, Hirahara says, marks another stage in Walnut Creek's evolution as a suburban alternative to Union Square, one of several high - end alternatives to spring up in the 1990s.

We have the Metro, the Metrobus, the trolleybuses, the lightrail as well as the suburban rail, the RTP buses, and the ecobici!

In the past decade, it has become fastest growing city in the nation, as suburban growth from Dallas, Fort Worth, and Plano begin to spill even farther north.

California officials see continuing growth in California's future, growth that can not be sustained under the present model of community growth, such as suburban sprawl, low density neighborhoods and private car commuting at the expense of public transportation.

«The survival strategy of the population is based in the search for markets in La Paz city and the resources exploit in the region», says Levinton, «Highly fragmented due to lack of communication, without infrastructures and transportation and services, Hampaturi functions as a suburban system of La Paz and suffers the contamination from the city.

Its size is somewhere between a studio apartment and an oversized dollhouse, tucked in a garage at David Zwirner's 19th Street gallery space and looks every bit as generic as the suburban Midwest.

One critic wrote that, «Brown's work is charming and professional and as superficial as those suburban vestals who used to swoon over Ravi Shankar.»

During the past sixteen years, Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam have presided over some two hundred ad hoc exhibitions in an eight - by - eight - foot converted shed behind their house in Oak Park, Illinois, known as the Suburban.

His work has been exhibited at venues ranging from Rosamund Felsen Gallery (Los Angeles), to Mixed Greens Gallery (NYC), to Chicago galleries such as Andrew Rafacz, Kavi Gupta and Julius Caesar, as well as The Suburban (both Oak Park and Milwaukee).

She says dogs that were bred over centuries as hunting or working dogs have traits that were useful in bygone times but are undesirable in a world in which most dogs end up as suburban pets.

At one point last year when she was still a licensed kennel operator and housing dogs in her filthy Marcus Hook law office, state authorities had her address listed as Suburban Station.

For years I tried to capture this experience on paper, but it always came out as a suburban melodrama.

The Silverado Midnight Edition has much the same look as the Suburban and Tahoe versions, with the same black wheels and trim.

It's also available on the Silverado Crew Cab pickup, which is almost the same vehicle underneath as the Suburban and Tahoe - it just has the cargo area turned into an open truck bed.

Tahoe: The 5.7 - liter V - 8 engine in the full - size sport - utility gets the same power boost as the Suburban.

They looked at Ford Expedition and Excursion SUVs, as well as another Suburban, before settling on a limited edition Chrysler Town & Country.

The TLX drove with ease, perfect as a suburban commute car and errand runner.

One gets used to it over time, but the XL (sold by Chevrolet as the Suburban) never lets the driver forget its 5,760 - pound mass.

It integrates Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, so that takes care of navigation, and features such as adaptive cruise control and lane - keeping assist are more useful on road trip cars, whereas the e-Golf works better as a suburban runabout.

The larger engine would do a lot for towing and Hauling in something as huge as the Suburban.

Think of the Chevrolet Tahoe as the Suburban's slightly smaller 8 - passenger brother.

This is unsurprising, as the Suburban is easily the largest SUV in Chevy's lineup.

The 2014 Nissan Pathfinder feels right at home in its role as suburban runabout.

As a suburban vehicle, the X-TRAIL is definitely worth considering — particularly if you're keen to take it out of the city occasionally.

However, there's nothing stopping anyone from pressing it into duty as a suburban car, or rural car, or even a highway car — just like eco-mobiles have been made to in the past, whether ideally suited or not.

Older vehicles such as your Suburban tend to be a little easier to diagnose.

The CR - V is first and foremost a family - oriented compact crossover, one of what I have sometimes referred to as a suburban mall assault vehicle (SMAV).

From the classy Malibu to the efficient Cruze to the workhorse Silverado 1500 and such family friendly SUVs as the Suburban and Tahoe, Phillips Auto Group Chevrolet is bound to have a vehicle that meets your needs.

Crossovers have become so commonplace as suburban accessories these days that it's easy to forget that they do have off - road capabilities.

The new schools will provide the same amenities — and educational opportunities — as suburban schools, Norcross argued.

As a suburban middle - school teacher stated, «I don't think I would want, necessarily, everything handed to me.

Surely the well - informed followers of this site have heard something about the furious resistance to the Common Core testing among parents in New York State, especially Long Island, not a Tea Party hotbed — and Arne Duncan's sneering at those parents as suburban mommies who were upset because they were forced to confront the fact that their precious snowflakes are dumdums.

As incidents in Columbine, CO and West Paducah, KY indicate violence has occurred in rural as well as suburban communities.

There is no denying that schools with more means such as some suburban communities can provide more resources for their students (Goyette & Lareau, 2014), but just because there are ample resources does not mean that all students experience them equitably (Lewis - McCoy, 2014).

Schools with a code from 21 to 23 are defined as suburban.

Charters show that children — including poor and underfunded urban kids — can learn as well as their suburban counterparts.

They include urban districts like Newark, Elizabeth and Passaic, as well as suburban ones including Edison, East Windsor Regional and Livingston.

Recent studies have cast doubt on the value of charter schools in DeVos» home state of Michigan, but an earlier study by Brookings found urban charter schools across the country succeeding even as suburban ones have not.