Sentences with phrase «decades after the city»

Fairview Park has been in the planning stages for more than a decade after the city's Economic Development Corporation bought the parcel near the shopping plaza.

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After a successful 32 - year investment banking career, Bill Henson, a decade ago, made the transition to inner city education, initially joining the board of Cristo Rey New York High School, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all faiths.

A decade and a half after the MaRS Discovery District opened its doors in Toronto, the city's promised health - care ecosystem is at last starting to emerge.

Vancouverites may be disappointed their city is no longer number one for livability according to The Economist, a ranking it lost last year to Melbourne after almost a decade at the top.

After becoming her city's first female firefighter more than two decades ago, Shelli Varela reflected on her accomplishment and realized the key had been one simple word: «Yes.»

What Happened: More than a decade after being founded by two New York City beer distributors, the brand was acquired by Nestlé - Dreyer's in 2004.

After decades of attempting to entice real estate and business investments, as well as a resident base with higher taxable income... cities now find themselves with a significant amount of all three.

After four decades living in and around New York City, Alexander is in the process of moving his design headquarters back to Chapel Hill.

A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, with some key exceptions, the city is ascendant.

BHOPAL, India (AP)-- Three decades after lethal gas swept through Bhopal, the central Indian city remains haunted by memories of the world's worst industrial disaster.

More than a decade after Katrina, musicians struggled to resuscitate New Orleans's vibrant music scene after the city was flooded.

After more than two decades of discussion, planning and design, the restoration is intended to significantly improve access to this city's reviving downtown, and reverse 12 years of steadily diminishing attendance.

Home construction per household a decade after the bust remains near the lowest level in 60 years of record - keeping, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

traded the Blue Ridge for the Rocky Mountains after two decades in mega cities.

The truth is that The Secular City was written without the benefit of the two decades of feminist theological scholarship that was to begin shortly after it was published.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

So, shortly after I arrived I headed out of the city and down around the bay to the then decade - old winery, one of the Peninsula's pioneers, where I had one of my first in - situ introductions to the cool - climate southern Victorian wine styles I'd been selling in Britain.

After the devastating 1989 northern California earthquake destroyed the Embarcadero Freeway — the double - decker elevated highway that had blocked off the Ferry Building from the rest of the city for three and a half decades — an opportunity arose for the people of San Francisco to reclaim a piece of their history and get a bustling food market in the bargain.

The market had been a central communal hub for the Broadway and Bunker Hill for decades after it first opened in 1917, but the city's freeway - driven growth and years of Downtown stagnation took the shine off.

The Minneapolis Lakers won five championships in their first six seasons, but they came a decade after Babe Ruth retired, and they happened in a different city.

A decade after Elway's retirement the Mile High City has finally found another quarterback with a sense of occasion and a toothy grin.

Waiting for the lame excuses, we have external problems, there first goal was a push, we started the game slowly, we responded well after going 2 nil down, we can't compete with city's money, wish he would just say say sorry but I have built a team of pushovers with no tactical input from me, I can't keep up with these new managers and there ideas and I have been winging for a decade cus the board don't have the balls to sack me.

Liverpool are close to signing Scotland left - back Andy Robertson from Hull City with Lucas Leiva poised to leave Anfield after decade - long service and Crystal Palace hopeful of signing Bruno Martins Indi from Porto...

Liverpool are through to the semi-finals of the champions League for the first time in a decade, after beating Manchester City 2 - 1.

It is the first time Arsenal have won the shield in a decade and comes three months after their last official match resulted in victory on the same pitch in the FA Cup final against Hull City.

He had been with Manchester City for the last few years, after joining Arsenal more than a decade ago.

City Councilman Ruben Wills (D - Jamaica) went on the defensive this week after he moved to correct several misdemeanor charges outside the borough that he had been avoiding for more than a decade.

Koslowitz built up her pension after 23 years on the city payroll, including a decade in the council that ended in 2001 after the arrival of term limits.

Two decades after he was sodomized by an NYPD officer, touching off one of the biggest police misconduct investigations in city history, Abner Louima is living a quiet but productive life in Miami, while the officer who attacked him, Justin Volpe, has eight years left on his federal prison sentence.

«When someone's strategy is running on their ethnicity, it is pretty obvious they have nothing of substance to offer — even after a decade in the City Council,» charged a campaign spokeswoman.

The plan the mayor outlined aims to reduce the jail population to 5,000 after a decade, which he said would allow the city to relocate all inmates from its famous — and infamous — incarceration island.

Bill de Blasio will be the first Democrat in two decades to serve as the 109th mayor of New York City, after having defeated Republican...

In the deep - blue district Mr. Silver ruled for decades, spanning a shrinking Jewish domain on the Lower East Side, the growing sprawl of Chinatown, a burgeoning Hispanic constituency and the educated - professional precincts of Battery Park City, Ms. Cancel's victory seemed assured after a group of local Democrats chose her as their nominee.

Opponents also maintain that dropping sanctions against Iran will rejuvenate its economy, allowing it to send even more funds to terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, to reanimate its atomic facilities after a decade passes and to develop the ballistics necessary to launch nuclear attacks on American and Israeli territory — possibly even on New York City.

Yet after two decades of hard - asses in City Hall, one year of a softer mayoral touch has produced a city that's more, not less, diviCity Hall, one year of a softer mayoral touch has produced a city that's more, not less, divicity that's more, not less, divided.

But Albany lawmakers have yet to fulfill the mandate in their budgets, and city schools continue to be owed $ 4.3 billion after more than a decade since the court ordered fair funding.

As New York debates whether to join these cities after decades of stalled efforts, their experiences could provide a road map.

«After years of planning and a $ 3 million investment by the city, today we come together to see a space our community has valued for decades transformed into a 14,000 - square - foot town square,» City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said Fricity, today we come together to see a space our community has valued for decades transformed into a 14,000 - square - foot town square,» City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said FriCity Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said Friday.

After a high point earlier this decade when the two governments agreed on a city - friendly sales tax distribution formula, relations between the two governments turned sour.

And in New York City, Bill de Blasio is now the first Democratic mayor after two decades of Republican reign, thanks in part to early support from the health - care - workers» union, SEIU 1199.

«After more than a decade we know that New York City students do better when the mayor has direct authority and accountability,» she told a legislative budget committee.

Dr. Charles Hirsch, who oversaw the city medical examiner's office for more than two decades and whose staff helped identify victims» remains after the Sept. 11 attacks, has died at age 79.

The trailers were meant to be a short - term solution to address overcrowding at public schools, but more than a decade after they were placed around the city, thousands of students still use them.

After two decades of fighting City Hall, the leaders of the Working Family Party are giddy that their candidates will control the levers of power at...

For Casabe, it all started when Fernando Salicrup's arts group, Taller Boricua, was evicted from a city - owned cultural center in 2011 after more than a decade.

Over the last decade, New York City public school students have seen real improvements in their schools, most clearly evidenced by a graduation rate that has been climbing steadily after decades of stagnation.

Hours after Miami - Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho accepted then declined to lead New York City's public schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he had made it clear to the nationally - known educator that his alleged affair with a reporter a decade ago would be «rehashed» in New York City and that the Big Apple was the «big leagues.»

After three decades of Andrew Cuomo's political involvement in New York City, we do welcome his new interest in helping our city's public housing tenants.&raCity, we do welcome his new interest in helping our city's public housing tenants.&racity's public housing tenants.»

After almost a decade working for the city, he's excited at the prospect of working for his neighborhood.

Lower East Side residents are suing to save a decades - old garden they cultivated from a vacant lot after appeals to politicians and celebrities like «Sex in the City» star Cynthia...