Sentences with phrase «company town built»

Bakerton is a company town built on coal, a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters» breakfasts and firemen's parades.

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But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.

The ecommerce giant may turn another (undetermined) city into a company town when it builds a second headquarters that will staff 50,000 employees.

Meanwhile, Amazon recently announced that it will build a second headquarters that could effectively turn the chosen city into a company town — much like what happened to Seattle when the online retail giant came to Seattle in the late 1990s.

Since the 19th century, companies have built company towns across the United States — municipalities where they own large percentages of the housing, stores, schools, churches, roads, and parks.

The only hospital in town was built with Rusal funding, the company said in a 2012 press release, as well as two kindergardens, a sanatorium, sports centres and a church.

In a town where a lot of graduates can't wait to get up and leave, he stayed here and built a very successful company, putting Gainesville on the map.»

As they continued on their headlong march into transparency, McDonald's Canada conceived of the Listening Tour, based on town halls held by the company's former U.S. president Jan Fields, to build relationships with key, sometimes antagonistic, constituencies.

Over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has become a company town for the garment trade, building its hopes of economic growth to a staggering degree on the manufacture and export of clothes.

- The idea is not only to focus on the foot traffic but to advertise to the various cooperate companies within and also to make deliveries on the nearby office buildings and cater for the major business meeting around the Arlington down town area and if we grow we will expand to other cities.

That is confined to Ford's Mcity, a fake town the company built to test autonomous driving.

Despite presidential candidates» talk of building walls between the United States and Mexico, the economies of Texas border towns such as Brownsville have never been based solely on companies and consumers on only one side of the border.

The company also wants to know where new developments and homes are being built so it can set up shop in town centers and strip malls anticipating a surge in new customer traffic.

Trading Ltd. www.rtwbvi.com The company grew steadily over the years, building its Headquarters: Road Town, Tortola, first warehouse in 1970.

Large and small groups interested in non-hotel meeting spaces can find unique options in Old Town Downton Temecula at the Old Town Theater, a contemporary, proscenium theater with two performance / meeting venues; Temecula Olive Oil Company's historic building; and Baily's Restaurant, with both indoor and outdoor venues for meetings and groups up to 136 guests.

But many work in town, for the school district or at local companies including Siemens Building Technologies or Allstate.

The website for AG Spanos shows the company owns residential and commercial properties around the country and the only property in New York the company takes credit for building is a 300 - unit luxury apartment complex called Patroon Creek near Washington Avenue in Albany, where Duffy stays when he's in town for legislative business.

Wilmorite revealed a new design, a higher price tag and a new name today for the casino the company has proposed to build in the town of Tyre, in Seneca County.

When New York state passed «the toughest gun control laws in the nation» on Jan. 15, concern arose in a small upstate New York town built around a gun manufacturing company.

The company is building a 245,000 - square - foot addition to its recently opened distribution center in the Broome County Corporate Park in the town of Conklin, the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news release.

SAUGERTIES >> Town officials have scheduled a June 18 public information session with a representative of Pilgrim Pipeline to discuss the company's proposal to build a pipeline between Albany and New Jersey.

Some state money is on the way to help the Town of Tonawanda build a new water system to supply several companies along River Road.

Wind turbine company NextEra Energy is considering whether to build a $ 200 million wind energy project in the town of Catlin in Chemung County.

But residents and business owners argued the change would make the town's existing ferry terminals outside Plum Island non-conforming lots, which could lead to problems down the road if those companies sought to build or expand.

Deepwater Wind, the company that plans to build the wind farm, has told the town board that it is «trying to engage with the fishing industry and find out what areas are most productive so they can site away from them,» Mr. Van Scoyoc said, and he has personally expressed opposition to the transmission cable's route through Gardiner's Bay, an initial plan that fishermen flatly oppose.

Instead, the state will market the building as open work space - analogous to a convention center - where out - of - town film companies can swoop in for a few weeks, make a film and then leave.

At the time, the town and county were considering giving land next to the landfill to a Canadian company, to build a plant that would convert biosolid waste into fertilizer.

About 1,300 people work at the plant in a town of about 8,000 built around the company.

Ultimately, Kovacs said, because the town does not have a municipal - owned utility — Windham is served by two electricity distribution companies — the best the city can do right now is to choose renewable energy for government buildings if the price is right.

Building yourself a perfect profile with promo your attract parts, you won't date your sugar daddy every day as long as you won't live - in him, so something you don't have to Be like that you can just ACT that what you are, like, you are innocent and came from small town so very caring others (If you want to find the sugar daddy that want to find a warm company and spoil his sugar baby like Barbie doll) but the real you is independent and have ambitions to save a mount of money for future preparing.

I am self employed man that has built a company from a small outfit out of my garage into something very special in the town we live in.

Not soon after, he befriends the barefoot environmental idealist tagged with the nickname of Mullet Fingers (Linley, My Dog Skip), from whom he learns that a chain of pancake houses is about to set up shop in town, on the verge of bulldozing over the homes of some cutesy owls that live in little holes in the ground beneath where the company has devised building plans.

Across town at Sheldon High, building trades teacher Jeff Merker says lumber companies are more than happy to part with extraneous boards — as long as the school comes and gets them.

The initiative to build alumni networks in schools and a college in the town, run by the education charity Future First and funded by the Government's Careers and Enterprise Company, has been backed by the actors Jodie Prenger and Craig Parkinson who both grew up and studied in the town.

His Short's Brewing Company is set in the quiet, seasonal town of Bellaire, and yet the company has built a name that extends far beyond Michigan's border for its quirky, anything - goes approach to beer - Company is set in the quiet, seasonal town of Bellaire, and yet the company has built a name that extends far beyond Michigan's border for its quirky, anything - goes approach to beer - company has built a name that extends far beyond Michigan's border for its quirky, anything - goes approach to beer - making.

Providing car buyers with a big design built to bring along plenty of company, the 2016 Chrysler Town & Country is built on care.

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Most of the technology companies in Irving are on the west side of town, and as a result of their need for transient skilled workers, many new housing units have recently been built in that part of the city.

Matter of fact, we used to be a paper mill and textile town and when those companies closed down this town starting dying, just a bunch of empty run down buildings.

The town would have lost it completely if it weren't for a private company who restored the building after the woodwork was destroyed in a fire in 1979.

At about 20 minutes drive from Bergamo, Crespi d'Adda is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a great example of the 19th and 20th century «company towns» which were built in Europe and North America by industrialists in order to meet the workers» needs.

They built a fort in what is now the town of Vieux Grand Port, which became the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company until the early 18th century, when the Dutch left the island and the French took over.

The towering Art Deco Mutual Heights building is one of the most popular holiday apartment buildings in Cape Town and is within walking distance of many attractions, like the Castle, City Hall, Adderley Street banks and flower market, Greenmarket Square, Convention Centre, Company's Gardens, museums galleries, restaurants and cafés.

Interception takes place just on the outskirts of town, where there are defenses that are built to stop beasts from getting into the village and works like a horde mode of sorts, as waves of enemies come trying to break through the gates and it's up to Adol and company to repel them.

Since then there has been a real explosion in back lane housing, and Bryn's company, LaneFab, is building back lane and conventional houses all over town.

After landing in Nanaimo to study resource management at Vancouver Island University, Patrick spent his summers managing a remote fishing lodge in Bamfield and the rest of the year building homes with a contracting company in town before taking the leap and starting Rewild Homes.

HOPKINTON — The wind company planning to build a 27 - turbine wind farm says the approval by the town board of its wind law has effectively banned the project from the town with zoning ordinances.

The town board was poised to pass a local law that would open the door for a Florida company to build a wind - driven electrical -LSB-...]

Companies can purchase the units to put on their building to be a hot spot, or cities can purchase units so the whole town can be linked up.