Sentences with phrase «development of cities like»

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Finalist cities are refining their pitches based on many of the factors that usually motivate corporations in site selection — economic development opportunities, transportation access and infrastructure, skilled labor force and quality - of - life measurements, like education and real estate costs.

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

macey / huddart - both big solid lads in goal and both have a bright future with us and learning from cech will aid there development well bennercar - looked a bit timid last night but am sure once he gets a run of games and opens up his skills will shine threw, very nasri like in stature and style man city look out.

He also reminisces about his formative years at the famed Ajax Academy alongside the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and John Heitinga, and reveals that he could have joined Manchester City before opting to further his development in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund.

We support candidates who are best suited to advance the causes of the city and state like any other taxpayer,» said George Arzt, spokesman for Extell Development Corp when asked if he thought its contributions helped get these abatements signed into law.

Today, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Daniel Squadron released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s decision that changes to the Section 8 Small Area Fair Market Rent (SAFMR) policy — which could have had severe unintended consequences for NYC Section 8 tenants — will not apply to cities with low vacancy rates, like NYC.

Other proposals by the Albanese campaign include new Mitchell Lama development in place of the mayor's proposal to build 90 new homeless shelters, a tax on real estate purchased by foreign individuals and corporations as investments rather than residences, and consolidating «programs like Head Start and pre-K under a single city agency.»

City neighborhood and development commissioner Paul Driscoll doesn't think there are any other housing projects like it in the city: a mix of market rate apartments with affordable apartments in one buildCity neighborhood and development commissioner Paul Driscoll doesn't think there are any other housing projects like it in the city: a mix of market rate apartments with affordable apartments in one buildcity: a mix of market rate apartments with affordable apartments in one building.

There are statements from government leaders in other American cities with successful streetcars, like Portland, OR, where a streetcar route provides transportation to almost one - third of the city's jobs and has stimulated $ 4.5 billion of new property development.

The next phase of the state's Buffalo Billion program — aiming to kickstart projects like Metro Rail extensions and Outer Harbor development — stands merely a 50 - 50 chance of success of getting through the Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a visit to the Queen City.

Officials at the big ones, like the Thruway Authority, as well as the small ones — the Albany Water Board, Schenectady County Local Development Corp., Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency and Saratoga Springs City Center Authority are among those that come to mind — have been asked what their policies are regarding the payment of bonuses.

It can seem like a mile - high brick wall, said Doug Seymour, city director of community development.

Ms. James, whose voice booms like a preacher's at press conferences, has emerged as one of the loudest members of the City Council when it comes to issues she's focused on, including not only CityTime but cuts to social services, the police department's stop - and - frisk policy and the controversial Atlantic Yards development project, located in her Fort Greene - based district.

Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, the Legal Aid Society, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the City Council's Committee on Courts and Legal Services, have all praised the move as a step in the right direction, though some groups like VOCAL - NY and mayoral candidate and activist Bob Gangi have approached the development with caution.

She said projects funded by the city's Department of Housing Development and Preservation — like La Promesa / Acacia Garden and Lexington Gardens II — set aside 10 to 20 percent of units in this income range.

Dennis, who works with the precinct serving New York City Housing Authority Developments throughout Queens, claimed residents of the borough's public housing apartments live in fear due to a spike in crime and what feels like a lacking relationship with police officers.

New Glen Cove Mayor Timothy Tenke inherits the city's perennial challenge of balancing resident concerns with moving forward on development projects like Garvies Point.

While metro regions like Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and New York City are putting together the most attractive incentive packages they can, a large portion of what's being offered will come from the state, and Empire State Development President Howard Zemsky said the package will be basically the same for any region that applies.

«This settlement shows our enforcement efforts have motivated major developers like Glenwood to embrace their obligations under the law by making retrofits in thousands of apartments, compensating aggrieved parties, and establishing procedures to ensure accessibility at ongoing and future development projects,» Bharara said in a statement, noting this is the 10th case of this kind his office brought against city landlords.

Gallo's campaign relied on a simple message: economic development won't come until the city addresses pressing quality - of - life problems like blight and crime.

She said the tax change would stymie economic development in cities like Syracuse, which have made frequent use of historic tax credits and credits for public housing and nonprofit developments that would be scrapped under the GOP's plan.

Cuomo said Schimminger and others like him remain mired in an old approach of doling out pork projects that never produced the pace of economic development now noted by his regional economic development councils in distressed cities like Buffalo.

Through projects like Sydney House, and our new Open Door program, we will finance the construction of 1,300 new affordable homes as part of Housing New York 2.0, the Mayor's expanded and accelerated plan to create and preserve 300,000 affordable homes by 2026,» said New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Maria Torres - Springer.

Later that week, at almost the exact moment that Mr. Cuomo was in a Manhattan ballroom condemning the city's public housing as «disgusting,» Mr. de Blasio was on the roof of a New York City Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.&racity's public housing as «disgusting,» Mr. de Blasio was on the roof of a New York City Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.&raCity Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.»

«I have often been asked why Buffalo could not turn itself around like other cities,» said Sam Hoyt, regional president of the Empire State Development Corp. «My answer always was the inability of the public and private sector to get on the same page.

Repairs are expected to begin soon at 21 city - and state - financed housing developments across the city, creating hundreds of construction jobs and helping to upgrade things like façades and roofs, heating systems, and broken doors and elevators.

«By opening The City's dark fibre infrastructure to the private and public sector, non-profit companies, and academia, we help enable the development of projects like quantum encryption and create opportunities for further research, innovation and economic growth in Calgary,» said Tyler Andruschak, project manager with Innovation and Collaboration at The City of Calgary.

«I would have encouraged someone doing this type of study to look for indicators of social cohesion and connections — for institutions like churches,» whose members, for example, might have social contacts who can shelter them in emergencies, explains Jason Corburn, who directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Center for Global Healthy Cities at the University of California, Berkeley.

With a plotline involving a radical mosque, multiculturalism, and commercial development City of Tiny Lights sounds like a ripe and topical slice of modern noir set in the city I lCity of Tiny Lights sounds like a ripe and topical slice of modern noir set in the city I lcity I love.

Additionally, Disney Infinity now includes standard development features like invisible walls to keep characters from falling off prescribed paths or tracks into nowhere, and procedural content generation in the form of Builders and Creators for content without the need to custom - build each individual piece of a racetrack, city, or forest environment.

Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others), who adapted the screenplay (based on the French film Anthony Zimmer) with Christopher McQuarrie and Julian Fellowes (or maybe he just did the last rewrites in a long - gestating development process), makes Venice look like the most gorgeous city on Earth and shoots Jolie with the same admiring, idealizing perspective, but has no facility for light comedy, romantic sizzle or breathtaking action.

Yet, after acknowledging that it was an inspiration, the two films should be seen as separate entities, since much of what makes City on Fire work (character development, yin and yang cop - robber themes, and a romantic subplot) are not to be found with the 1992 American film, and what people liked about Reservoir Dogs (smart and savvy writing, sassy interplay among characters, and some brutally graphic violence) aren't really the strengths of the Hong Kong original.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Education, Economic Development Keys to Improving Cities Like Worcester Worcester Telegram and Gazette, April 30, 2012 «Paul Reville, state secretary of education, said children in these middle - sized must be immersed at an early age in «literacy rich» environments, and said particular attention should be paid to English language learners.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

Despite the city's optimism, the prospect of more tests, particularly ones that will have a direct influence on teachers, is causing dismay among those who believe that students already spend too much time preparing for exams and not enough on the broader goals of education, like social and emotional development.

There are plenty of districts across the United States that could benefit from implementing a Manhood Development Program, and the hope is that other district's administrators and officials will recognize the impact this program has had in Oakland and bring a program like it to their respective city's.

This city also contains a fair amount of new developments and historical neighborhoods like Six Points.

Regardless of what professionals and the media may say, no one knows with absolute certainty what a city's economy will be like in three years, whether a development plan will be scrapped, or if some other key factor will dramatically change.

«A development of this size would be like adding the city of Pleasant Hill to Concord and would affect not only people in the immediate vicinity, but other residents of Concord and nearby cities who would have to deal with increased traffic congestion, pollution, and urban sprawl,» said Gleason.

The Hampton Inn Madison Square Garden is also conveniently located is the midst of a corporate, tourist and shopping hub within blocks of some of New York City's attractions like Macy's Herald Square, 5th Avenue Shopping, Fashion Institute of Technology, Highland Park, the new city within a city the Hudson Yards Development Project and New York City's Convention Center the Jacob Javits CenCity's attractions like Macy's Herald Square, 5th Avenue Shopping, Fashion Institute of Technology, Highland Park, the new city within a city the Hudson Yards Development Project and New York City's Convention Center the Jacob Javits Cencity within a city the Hudson Yards Development Project and New York City's Convention Center the Jacob Javits Cencity the Hudson Yards Development Project and New York City's Convention Center the Jacob Javits CenCity's Convention Center the Jacob Javits Center.

The lots all have underground power, city water and will be included in the HOA of the new lots we are getting ready to start developing on the North side of Placencia Caye and will have access to all the associated amenities, like 24 hour shuttle boat, use of development golf carts on the mainland, large community pool, bar, workout room and security.

I hate to ask this before the game is even out, but — we've seen with most of the recent Paradox games, from the Development Studio stuff like Europa Universalis IV down to, you know, Cities: Skylines, this sort of ever - expanding with DLC strategy.

Much like other racers, the storyline really has no bearing on the gameplay, and frankly the development team could have done without it, but for those of you who are curious, you play as a rookie member of sorts in a group of street racers who are looking to cause havoc on the streets of the fictitious city of Shatter Bay.

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Another example can be found in globalized cities: across the world, people are being pushed out of urban centers, including in Berlin, to make way for luxury property developments traded like currency on the global real estate market.

Besides beauty parlors and barbershops, Marshall takes on subjects like housing developments in Chicago, the city where he has lived for over 20 years; the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton; and historical photos of slaves and prisoners.

Milstein says: «I was interested in documenting the patterns, layering, and complexity of cities, highlighting airports, container ports, recreational facilities, and residential and commercial developments, all of which grow organically over time and are connected by roads and arterial highways like a living organism.

It explores the causation, occurrences, inner mechanisms, politics and functions of Anxiety in relation to the development of consumerism in cities like Hong Kong, through the practice of the four participating artists.