Sentences with phrase «built during the boom»

The astonishing architecture was built during the boom years, after years of the city having no money to invest in urban renewal and infrastructure projects.

«The millions of homes built during the boom have created a drag on the current market as the owners surrender them to foreclosure.

The astonishing architecture was built during the boom years, after years of the city having no money to invest in urban renewal and infrastructure projects.

«Any excess housing that may have been built during the boom years has been absorbed, and a stronger supply response is going to be needed to keep pace with demand — particularly for moderately - priced homes.»

Not exact matches

During the Great Bag Boom earlier this decade, women would buy several handbags a year to build a wardrobe.

Capital of the world's third - largest economy, Toyko built its reputation as a leading tech innovator during the dotcom boom.

Left behind during the dot - com boom, East Palo Alto began seeing gentrification in 2000, as developers built homes and employees of Facebook and Google began moving in.

He'd built his business with money from a small venture capital firm during the boom years in the late 1990s.

During real estate booms, developers have a tendency to build more than is necessary.

During the credit boom, finance is available on easy terms and the economy builds up excesses in terms of leverage and risk - taking.

The small construction firms that did mansionizations during the boom would have no trouble building two - family houses.

Across the railroad tracks, over the river, and up on a hill are new homes built during the housing boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

During the post-war boom of the 1960s and»70s successive local councils began a progress campaign to modernise the city and many older buildings were replaced with newer buildings.

During those times, according to local reporting, Quinnipiac was in the midst of «a building boom,» including «a new, $ 52 million hockey and basketball arena» while also «freezing senior management salaries, ending job searches, and reducing operating budgets by 5 percent.»

The CBI's director general, John Cridland, said there was «gathering momentum» in the economy but more needed to be done to correct the «profound economic imbalances which built up during the boom years», including developing a «coherent» industrial strategy.

Any dam being built during this government - funded boom, as well as those already completed, must be able to withstand the strong ground shaking of an extreme earthquake, says Martin Wieland of the International Commission on Large Dams, a group of engineers that makes recommendations for structural standards.

China's booming economy during the last 30 years has led to the building of enormous manufacturing factories, industrial plants, power plants and other facilities that produce huge amounts of air pollutants.

The less fortunate school friend, never went to college in the end but not due to lack of means but rather due to early retirement as his inherited dilapidated family building broke auction records as Mouille Point collected it's residential property title of the Golden Mile during the property boom.

Attractions: For those who were not part of the baby boomers era, during WWII, many communities near Army Airfields would be granted funds from the federal government to build local USO building to support their troops.

Built in back of the old New Frontier during the building boom under the premise that the surrounding properties would make way for similar degree of luxury.

Prosperous during the copper boom in the 60's, Zambia was able to build infrastructure at the main mining and farming communities.

[17] However very many simpler buildings, especially churches built during the wool boom in East Anglia, are fine examples of the style.

It received its name after a Scottish logwood and mahogany lumberjack who built a massive log boom in the area during the 1700s.

The historical district (Phuket Old Town) has been built from mid 19th century onward during the tin mining's boom, an era which saw the construction of the first ever hotel in Phuket (On On Hotel opened in 1929) to accommodate merchants from abroad.

The historic location was built in the 1880s during an economic boom and currently is a hotspot for Hollywood directors; Quincy Jones filmed Michael Jackson's Thriller in a local home.

And as if on cue, Istanbul was deluged on the biennial's opening night by an apocalyptic storm, one that killed 32 people in a suburb built on sand during the last speculative building boom.

Ali Ağaoğlu, a billionaire developer in Turkey, caused a stir last year when he admitted that his family's company — and most other developers — routinely used inappropriate materials during a building boom in Istanbul in recent decades, creating enormous vulnerability because of the long history of powerful earthquakes in the sprawling city.

The abundance of abandoned golf courses goes back to the real estate boom in the country during the early 90s where many courses were built, but proved economically unsustainable.

During the housing boom, thousands of homes were built with cheap drywall imported from China.

The development of nearby oil fields in the 1920s and the age of automobile travel created a major real estate boom during which many designated landmark buildings were constructed.

More than 2,500 Lustrons were built starting in 1949 during the post-World War II housing boom, when the demand for housing by returning GIs outstripped supply.

«The apartment sector did not overbuild during the housing boom, and then built nearly nothing for two years after the market crash because no financing was available,» he said.

Silicon Valley office landlords are still wincing from the sweeping technology bust that emptied their buildings in 2001 and 2002 as quickly as the technology boom absorbed space during the late 1990s...

The cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, which were first built up during the 1920s land boom, are now experiencing an influx of new residents as well as inner - city gentrification.

Americans first used them during the Civil War, and in the post-war building boom, these tiles were often found in schools, storefronts, and residences.

During the housing building boom from 2004 - 06, builders encountered a shortage of domestic drywall and so began importing drywall products.

Only 10 per cent of the shiny new buildings that have gone up during the past decade's housing boom were built expressly to house renters.

«Many buildings that went up during the beginning of this condo boom are already facing high repair costs, and in many cases lawsuits, because they are built so shabbily,» said Ted Kesik, a professor of building science at the University of Toronto.