Sentences with phrase «company towns housing»

At their peak a century ago, there were more than 2,500 company towns housing 3 % of the US population, according to The Economist.

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Though Pacific Lumber Company did not found Scotia, California, the company established its headquarters there and maintained all of the town's housing from the early 1880s to the midCompany did not found Scotia, California, the company established its headquarters there and maintained all of the town's housing from the early 1880s to the midcompany established its headquarters there and maintained all of the town's housing from the early 1880s to the mid-1980s.

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.

Now a ghost town, Table Rock, Wyoming was founded by Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) as a company town to house workers during the region's housing shortage in the late 1970s.

Naspers is a Cape Town - based company with a dark history as the publishing house that for a long time supported South Africa's racist National Party and its Apartheid policy (Naspers has since apologized for its role in that era).

The billionaire Sanjeev Gupta bought a steelworks in South Australian town of Whyalla last August, through his Liberty House company.

Still, he admitted that the home goods company he cofounded in a South End town house in 2002 has a way to go before it becomes a household name.

While no longer boasting the largest tap list of any cider house in Portland, the Portland Cider Company is still the best place in town to grab a pint of ferment apple juice.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

«Affordable housing in general is very critical out here, whether it's for utility company employees or for other people,» said Town Board member and Fishers Island resident Louisa Evans.

Trump's company pulled out of a proposed $ 250 - million tower project in the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi, the latest effort by the president - elect to defuse charges that his global businesses will cause conflicts of interest once he enters the White House.

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BUT, every year I look forward to going to my husband's company Christmas party at this REALLY fancy restaurant in town... and then every year I look forward to the annual Stillman Christmas extravaganza we host at our house.

Now I am in a business casual environment (in house at an insurance company), but it is really small town style wise.

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.

Nintendo loved seeing how players had decorated, designed and themed their towns and houses, so now, to celebrate this aspect of the game, the company is holding weekly competitions based on different themes!

A new cluster of company houses appeared at the edge of town.

He also dreamed of founding a town there that would resemble the sort of company - based community he had helped to establish in the U.S. Over a span of 18 years, Ford worked to fulfill this vision, sinking big money into the town, which was equipped with a golf course, movie theaters and Cape Cod - inspired houses.

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.

Located amidst the most prestigious banks and financial companies of Paradeplatz Square, the Park Hyatt Zurich is located minutes away from the boutiques of Bahnhofstrasse, Old Town, Niederdorf, the Congress Hall and Opera House.

Murray House is centrally located in the heart of Cape Town's city centre, within walking distance from Green Market Square, St George's Cathedral, The Company's Garden, and Long Street with its restaurants an...

Operated by Christa and Traci Hozie, the sisters and owners of the famed Cayucos sweets spot, the Brown Butter Cookie Company, the lovingly restored 1870s Cass House (222 N. Ocean Ave., Cayucos, 805-995-3669) is in the heart of the beautiful beach town, Cayucos.

The main town of Phu Quoc Island, Duong Dong houses local and international restaurants, bars, banks, pharmacies, and tour companies.

Tourist House Duomo is placed in an historical palace in Via de» Cerretani, one of the most famous roads of the center of Florence, between the great companies of the Italian fashion, close to the most important momuments of the town and about 100 mt from

The NES game was not a bad title by any means, and I still love the beat»em up genre to this day, but I grew up in a small town in Texas, that also happened to be the place where the company Tradewest was housed.

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.

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With prices this low residents will have spending money left over that they can use to visit any one of the state's attractions including Willington's Square and Town Hall, Brandywine Valley in Wilmington or visit the Grand Opera House or catch a performance by the Delaware Theatre Company.

Each town is graded by the state or the insurance company according to the place's proximity to the closest fire department and fire hydrant, road accessibility, congestion, and other characteristics that usually influence the time which the fire department needs to quickly get to a house fire.

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.

Whether you live in student housing off campus or you rent a large house for you and your family just outside of town, you have every reason to go ahead and get insured from a quality Federal Way renters insurance company.

Nintendo loved seeing how players had decorated, designed and themed their towns and houses, so now, to celebrate this aspect of the game, the company is holding weekly competitions based on different themes!

Perhaps surprisingly for a town of only 20,000, it supports a community and an equity theater company, an opera house, a philharmonic orchestra and a jazz orchestra.

Everyone in town said that they would give their listing to this Realtor when it came time to sell their house instead of going to the big evil franchise company down the street.

Sean and Lenore Robinson extended their commute when they bought a $ 218,000 house in Makaha after being unable to find a house to their liking near town where Sean works in marketing and sales management for an import company.

I have a rental in a college town and found out that some insurance companies will not underwrite student housing, so you have the potential for higher insurance premiums.

Mary Cook is an interior designer whose company, Mary Cook & Associates, has built a niche in «merchandising» models for builders around the country, from town houses for first - time buyers to the recently opened model residential condo units at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago.

The Master Wishmakers specialise in making wealthy clients» dreams come true, but a spokesman for the company claims that, despite the dramatic nature of the project, clever design techniques allowed them to keep the costs down and, as a result, they claim the project cost less than a town house in the centre of nearby Cambridge.