Sentences with phrase «building on the council estate»

My own school was called Abbey Road Juniors; a squat little building on the council estate, with a bumpy playground built on a slant and two entrance gates with boys and girls written above them in sooty stone.

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The New York City Council and a local tenants rights group announced on Monday that they would launch a joint investigation into the real estate company formerly headed by Jared Kushner, a top aide to President Donald Trump, over alleged falsification of building permits.

In January 2014, Syracuse University, Mahoney, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, real estate developers and other insiders were negotiating behind the scenes to build a $ 500 million stadium on a vacant lot near downtown Syracuse - the heart of the 4th council district.

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

Ms. Glen told the Council's Committee on Housing that several independent studies, including those done by Columbia University and the Citizens Budget Commission, showed that mandating real estate interests receiving the tax deduction to pay union rates would result in 30 percent fewer affordable units getting built.

In June 2015, Albany approved the renewal of 421a, on the condition that the Real Estate Board of New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) reach an agreement on prevailing wages to construction workers.

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.

The abatement would continue for an additional three and a half years if the Building Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York, representing developers, could reach a deal on new pay floors.

«The Revised 421 - a Law was conditioned on the Real Estate Board of New York («REBNY») and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York («Construction Trades») reaching an agreement regarding the minimum wages to be paid to construction workers,» the group's letter read.

And Heidi Burkhart, president of the affordable housing brokerage Dane Real Estate, warned that the higher construction wages negotiated by REBNY and the Building Trades Council could stifle development on projects with high land costs and thin margins.

The mayor said the Real Estate Board of New York — which represents developers — and the Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents builder unions — still have plenty of time to agree on wage requirements for projects built under 421a.

The same arrangement, however, also required the Building and Construction Trades Council of New York and the Real Estate Board of New York to come to a deal on writing new pay floors into the exemption.

The Real Estate Board of New York and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York have reached an agreement to revive the 421a tax exemption in New York City, ending a 10 - month stalemate that put a damper on the city's investment sales market and stalled several major projects.

Cuomo had asked the Building Construction and Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York, groups that represent construction workers and developers, respectively, to come to an agreement on how to renew 421 - a last year.

Cuomo charged two groups with hashing out a deal on 421 - a — the Real Estate Board of New York and the Buildings and Construction Trades Council.

Dominic Hall is born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, but thanks to a postwar building boom, his family moves to a council estate, a new community that throws together people who, in previous times, might not have known one another at all.

Since most real estate professionals are familiar with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED environmental standards, the WELL program was built on the same technology platform and share the same third party certifying engine.

Whether real estate pros are lobbying a city council for green building incentives or marketing a green property to a skeptical buyer, Harris says success often depends on a single driving concept: simplicity.