Sentences with phrase «city building for»

If you find a stray animal, please contact your local humane society, police department, animal control officer or city building for instructions.
Can an ever - shrinking population pay the bills for cities built for many more people than live there at present, even as they must pay the bills — financing, operating, maintaining — for all that new sprawled out suburban infrastructure?
Portland is a city built for love, so take advantage of the chance to have the most memorable night of your life.
Dioramas inside that museum play a key narrative role, as does the Queens Museum's Panorama of the City of New York — a miniature model of the city built for the 1964 World's Fair that becomes the centerpiece of a stunning, handcrafted sequence.
Contestants race to be the 1st across the finish line in a made - for - TV city built for destruction, with the ultimate goal of becoming the season champion.
Murray has been making paintings of New York City buildings for the last 20 years, according to the Southampton Historical Museums and Research Center.
Venting of plumbing fixtures has been a standard in the design and construction of plumbing systems in New York City buildings for almost a century.
Passaic has all the necessary elements of a city built for traditional families.

Not exact matches

As soon as they see a roaring success in the city, they want to put you and your business on the road and have you build copies and clones throughout the state or the country - whether it makes the slightest sense for you to do so or not.
Responding to Amazon's specific tax requests as a condition for building its second headquarter in any given city, Christie proposed up to $ 7 billion in tax incentives.
Last week, Statistics Canada reported a big drop in the issuance of building permits for single - family homes in cities with populations greater than 10,000.
This spring, he spent $ 225 million for a 50 % stake in Centro Canalejas Madrid — a multipurpose complex that will replace historic buildings near the heart of the country's capital city.
Today, a handful of Chinese companies and cities are feverishly courting Tesla for a joint venture, Fortune has learned, and Musk has said his company could begin building cars in China before the end of 2018.
But when it comes time for an entrepreneur to build a team, having a ego can sometimes get in the way, says Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND, in an interview at the Entrepreneur 360 conference in New York City.
• BlueLinx Corporation, a subsidiary of BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BXC), agreed to acquire Cedar Creek Holdings, Inc., an Oklahoma City, Okla. - based distributor of lumber and building materials, for an aggregate purchase price of $ 413 million.
And most remarkably, although Cape Town sits on a long seacoast hugging the southern Atlantic Ocean, officials delayed building desalination plants for the city.
Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.
Beijing is hoping that building more cities will create wealth for its people but as CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports, it's also fueling a debilitating rise in property prices.
May 2 (Reuters)- Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.
May 2 - Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.
«I believe the CEO of a small - to - medium business has three major duties: to make sure there is money in the bank; to get the right people in the right roles; and to guide the long - term vision for the company,» said Nick Gray, the founder and CEO of Museum Hack, a team - building company in New York City that counts major brands, including Facebook, among its customers.
Instead, he wants the city to encourage demand, by making it easier to build in mature neighbourhoods and more attractive for families to buy and live in them.
Ad placement companies look for three standard sizes for digital advertising, says Sean Keaveny, senior vice president of adConductor, a company that helps build and manage online ad networks, and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts; New York City; and Los Angeles.
One thing that remains to be seen is how local regulators will respond, especially in cities like New York where it's illegal to rent out one's full unit in an apartment building on Airbnb for less than 30 days.
The latest potential headache for the New York businessman involves a 50 - story luxury rental building being built in Jersey City, N.J., by Kushner Companies.
There's no guarantee of a job after the program finishes for participants, nor any obligation for them to stay on in the city, but Greene Groves hopes that spending a year in Detroit will help convince participants to build longer - term ties to the city.
As the New York Times reports, the contest will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to help them build city - related apps for the web and smart phones.
After all, they provide an opportunity for people to meet, build meaningful relationships, and reaffirm the vibrant community present in any city.
For example, Schmitz could build a network of talent, starting in Phoenix and then replicating the concept across every tier - two city in the country.
The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.
The Trumps and Macrons helped plant a tree on the White House grounds together before boarding Trump's Marine One helicopter for a scenic tour of monuments built in the capital city designed by French - born Pierre L'Enfant as they flew south to Mount Vernon, the first U.S. president's home along the Potomac River.
In April the company signed a «strategic cooperation agreement,» Rhee said, with the municipal government of Kunming City in the southwestern province of Yunnan, which will aid the company in robot building and developing artificial intelligence capabilities in Yunnan province for the purpose of making Kunming and other municipalities A.I. - enabled «smart» cities.
For Urgo, the ideal is to attract college and postcollege renters to buildings including the Forge in Long Island City and House39 in Murray Hill, with the idea that they'll fall in love with a space and remain even as they graduate to the next stage in their lives.
«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.
«We're not seeing the kind of growth and scale - ups, and if we can solve that problem we'll also keep our most talented in Miami by using entrepreneurship as a tool for community building,» says Matt Haggman, the program director in Miami for the Knight Foundation, which committed a $ 2 million investment to help bring Endeavor to the city.
In fact, Musk has been working with Hawthorne city officials for over a year about building the tunnel, which was originally conceived as a way to get SpaceX employees across from the parking lot to the building safely.
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Funding and managing stakeholders» interests to build and manage such projects will be a major challenge for cities, Corwin said.
In the most recent scandal, Kushner Companies has been accused of faking documents for about 34 of its New York City properties and low - balling the number of rent - controlled tenants in these buildings, according to the Associated Press.
With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.
Trump made numerous anti-immigration promises during his campaign, ranging from building a massive wall across the U.S.'s southwestern border to ending federal funding for «sanctuary cities» that are friendly to undocumented immigrants.
If the bank paid a rent of about 70 pounds a square foot — the going rate for new offices in the City of London district — the building would be worth about 1.5 billion pounds assuming a yield of 4 percent, the people said.
Rising prices have pushed yields for the best buildings in the City of London financial district to a record low of 4 percent as the appetite for long - term income grows.
The first time I interviewed him, in 2009, he spoke excitedly about a plan for a new organic farm that the Stop hoped to build in the northern part of the city.
Today is the deadline for cities all around North America to submit their proposals to Amazon, which is looking for a spot to build a second headquarters.
With its narrow cobblestone streets, well - preserved historic buildings, manicured public squares and trendy eateries, the capital city of Santiago de Querétaro could easily be mistaken for somewhere in southern Spain.
MEXICO CITY, April 16 - Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim sparred on Monday with the country's presidential front - runner over the Mexico City airport his companies are helping build, saying the leftist's threats to halt the $ 13 billion project would be a setback for the economy.
Before getting into the criticism of Trump's impact on veterans, Meyers gave the president «serious credit» for donating over a million dollars to building a Vietnam Memorial in New York City, which was completed in 1985.
Anyone who wanted to do business in the shiny new parts of cities that Alphabet controlled and built would end up paying for the privilege,» the article speculates.
If they become a good corporate citizen and they invest in our city, and they're going to employ people clearly, and they're going to be building and doing new things, I think that's a win for the city.
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