Sentences with phrase «construction of council housing»

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The e-commerce giant has paused construction of its newest tower in its headquarters city after the City Council proposed a tax on the largest businesses to help fund affordable housing.

«To suggest that you can't have projects that do both, create good jobs and also create affordable housing, is just not even consistent with the mayor's own history,» said Paul Fernandes of the Building and Construction Trades Council.

Whatever program comes next to spur affordable housing in 421a's wake, Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, said he'd keep pushing for better pay for constructConstruction Trades Council, said he'd keep pushing for better pay for constructionconstruction workers.

John Loffredo, former Commissioner of Public Works Mark Wegner, Superintendent of Highways, Town of Cheektowaga Darlene Washington, CSEA Ken Jennetti, AFSCME Paul Ingham, Northeast Area Manager, Siemens David Pawlik, President, CSS Construction (former Commissioner of Housing / Community Development for City of Buffalo and Vice President at Savarino Construction) Pat Reilly, President, John W. Danforth Dan Boody, Business Agent, IUPAT District Council 4 Rhonda Ricks, Inclusion Development Associates, Inc..

The de Blasio administration has reached a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, covering $ 3.5 billion of work and repairs at the New York City Housing Authority over the next three years.

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.

At 1 p.m., the Housing advocacy coalition Real Affordability for All (RAFA), New York Communities for Change, and the NYC Building & Construction Trades Council will join Assemblyman Francisco Moya to call for reform of the Scaffold Law and the so - called «Sunshine» bill, LCA pressroom, state Capitol, Albany.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, also said the Council approved the contract for the construction of Gombe - Biu Road.

At 11 a.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., HPD Commissioner Vicki Been and others celebrate the start of construction on a new permanent supportive housing development for homeless households, 984 Woodycrest Ave., the Bronx.

Also at 11 a.m., a coalition of open - shop construction groups, led by the NY Construction Guy, rally against the appointment of Robert Cornegy Jr. as the chairman of the NYC Council Committee on Housing and Buildings and call for the return of Councilman Jumaane Williams, City Hall stepsconstruction groups, led by the NY Construction Guy, rally against the appointment of Robert Cornegy Jr. as the chairman of the NYC Council Committee on Housing and Buildings and call for the return of Councilman Jumaane Williams, City Hall stepsConstruction Guy, rally against the appointment of Robert Cornegy Jr. as the chairman of the NYC Council Committee on Housing and Buildings and call for the return of Councilman Jumaane Williams, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Edward Ott, a labor expert at CUNY and former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said that Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York's agreement may encourage more developers to hire union workers for affordable housing projects.

Flanked by Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority tenants in front of the Marine Drive complex where he lives Wednesday afternoon, the retired construction company owner and worker says he is not going to quit as a BMHA tenant commissioner and won't abandon the Council campaign.

The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, which is affiliated with about 100,000 union members, gave its endorsement today, praising what it described as de Blasio's commitment to responsible development, affordable housing and job creation.

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A review of Rice's DA account disclosures filed with the state Board of Elections since her ascension to the House in 2015 show she has paid $ 4,500 for ads in the publications of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, $ 150 for a «journal ad» from an African - American church in Hempstead and $ 21,000 to local Democratic Party organizations that have supported her re-election to Congress.

Pending approval from the City Council's land - use committee in April, Ienuso said that construction of the field house would not begin until the summer months in order to reduce the amount of noise and traffic at the construction site during the school year, in an effort to help the schools across the street from the site.

The fair is a collaborative effort of the Utica Municipal Housing Authority; City of Utica; Norstar Development USA; Utica Public Library; Workforce Development Board; Mohawk Valley Community College Youthbuild Program; Oneida County Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES); Central New York Labor Council; and other partners to connect residents interested in construction employment with local training programs and employers.

The development, known as Astoria Cove, is viewed as a coup by the de Blasio administration and left - leaning City Council members — a about - face on the part of City Councilmembers occasioned by a 7 percent increase in the amount of affordable housing housing to built — and an agreement to use organized labor during the construction phase, even as speculation builds that the developer, Alma Realty, could flip the property and some activists question whether enough affordable housing will be built.

Vallone was representing some of the largest Willets Point businesses at Willets Point and had been lobbying hard against the plan before an 11th - hour deal was brokered between the city, Council members and three of Vallone's largest clients — House of Spices, Fodera Foods and Tully Construction.

«You can not have an affordable housing plan where the housing is built on the back of exploited workers,» said Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York.

In light of objections by the construction industry to plans by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to make the passive house standard mandatory in the area, we decided to republish this 2012 article from Village magazine by our deputy editor, Lenny Antonelli, which details the history of the industry's objections to higher standards.

Speakers at the conference included Minister for Housing Simon Coveney, former European Parliament president Pat Cox, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland CEO Jim Gannon, Construction Industry Federation director general Tom Parlon, Wexford County Council chief executive Tom Enright, Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown county architect Andrée Dargan, Department of Housing advisor Seán Armstrong, Michael Bennett Construction QS Seamus Mullins, University of Ulster academic Dr Shane Colclough, EnEffect director Dragomir Tzanev, ILTP Consulting MD Christy O'Sullivan, and all three nZEBRA directors, along with the owners of two separate nZEBs which share the rare distinction of being A1 rated passive houses — Monica Hackett and Francis Clauson.

(Above) Pictured at the nZEBRA conference are (l - r) SEAI CEO Jim Gannon; Department of Housing advisor Seán Armstrong; Wexford County Council's Enniscorthy district manager Liz Hore; nZEBRA director Tomás O'Leary; Wexford County Council chairman Paddy Kavanagh; housing minister Simon Coveney; Wexford County Council chief executive Tom Enright; minister of state Paul Kehoe; and Construction Industry Federation director general Tom Housing advisor Seán Armstrong; Wexford County Council's Enniscorthy district manager Liz Hore; nZEBRA director Tomás O'Leary; Wexford County Council chairman Paddy Kavanagh; housing minister Simon Coveney; Wexford County Council chief executive Tom Enright; minister of state Paul Kehoe; and Construction Industry Federation director general Tom housing minister Simon Coveney; Wexford County Council chief executive Tom Enright; minister of state Paul Kehoe; and Construction Industry Federation director general Tom Parlon.

The group recently acted for St Luke's Hospice in acquiring Clifford House, and provided subsequent construction - related advice concerning its renovation to a multi-use centre for community - based palliative care, and advised Ackroyd & Abbott on a development agreement with Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Universal Components to construct a 165,000 sq ft advanced logistics facility for the relocation of Universal Components» head office.

Despite all the construction cranes on the horizon, apartment owners and managers feel that the national apartment market is getting tighter, with even more demand from renters, as they have for the last year, according to April's «Quarterly Survey of Apartment Conditions» from the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC).

His efforts were instrumental in obtaining city council approval for the Crestwood affordable housing development's construction in 2006 in the community of Millican - Ogden.

A report prepared for the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON), written by researcher Will Dunning, estimates that up to 30 per cent of the cost of new housing in the GTA is now attributable to direct and indirect government charges.

Although government data is not yet available for 2009 or 2010, there were nearly 906 million tax credits awarded for new construction and rehab projects in 2008, according to the National Council of State Housing Finance Agencies.