Sentences with phrase «downtown city cores»

It could be due, in part, to unaffordable housing in downtown city cores and young people being forced away from neighborhoods where it's easier to meet up in parks or other (free) public spaces.

Not exact matches

Residents clustered around Vancouver's Angus Park, a grassy strip just 10 minutes south of the downtown core, face the same challenges faced by most homeowners in that city: debt.

He's noticed a «community crisis» has spawned from the 40 payday loan outlets he's counted in Hamilton, which are mostly «clustered together» in the city's downtown core.

Over the last few years there's been a push to redevelop the city's downtown core into a commercial and residential hot spot.

The study found that between 1996 and 2001, the number of new jobs outside the downtown cores of major cities grew at more than four times the rate jobs in city centres did.

Considering the city's push to develop and create a vibrant downtown core, anything in the urban northwest will be of value, says Slobodan.

As early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told me.

During the quarter, the strongest growth continued to come from outside of the downtown core, with all GTA sub-regions outpacing home price appreciation in the City of Toronto.

When USDA is not the right choice: If you want to buy a home close to the downtown core of a major city, USDA is not right for you.

The city's mother church is a short walk from the convention center, but going there took somewhat longer owing to the ever tighter security cordon closing in on the downtown core as Francis's arrival neared, and also because city streets cleared of traffic make for amazingly wide and dramatic spaces for cartwheeling.

However, the urban core definition has expanded to be pretty much anything in the city limits and there is zero land sizable enough downtown and what public land there is very much in use.

Officials still hope to locate the skate park near downtown, but the district has spent years developing the spaces in the city's core into mature parks and space is limited, said Devin Lavigne, the district's planning manager.

The 950 seat theater — and the Strand Center for the Arts next door — is now at the core of a $ 10 million state - funded downtown revitalization initiative in the Lake City, according to Kretser.

Municipal leaders, along with city, county and downtown economic development and business promotion groups, are hoping a two - year bid for a Downtown Revitalization Initiative award will fast - track projects and solve long - standing sore spots in the core of downtown economic development and business promotion groups, are hoping a two - year bid for a Downtown Revitalization Initiative award will fast - track projects and solve long - standing sore spots in the core of Downtown Revitalization Initiative award will fast - track projects and solve long - standing sore spots in the core of Batavia.

State lawmakers, who have the power to help change the city's fortunes, parachute in and out, spending what little time they have in the capital's downtown core.

Cuomo, speaking at the downtown Strand Theatre on Wednesday, said the city contains all of the elements required to fuel economic growth, including a strong core of small businesses, a state school that acts as an idea incubator and a low corporate tax rate.

One of the biggest differences is that the Detroit Future City proposal focuses on developing the areas closest to the downtown core, while the researchers» estimates — which they call the «Best 22 Residential Plan,» covers some of the same areas but also areas in a wider outer ring.

Viewing the core is like seeing a city with no downtown, just houses sprinkled across a vast landscape.

Shanny in the City is a boutique matchmaking service for single professionals living in the downtown core and GTA.

My first act as mayor in 1991 was to convene a Downtown Summit to map out a plan to revitalize the core of our city... During my dozen years as mayor, Denver went from being perceived as a cow town to being in the worldwide spotlight.»

The city's attractions include Canada's largest Ribfest, Art gallery of Burlington, Sound of Music Festival and Spencer Smith Park, all located in the downtown core.

Part of the problem is that there are not enough rental units in the downtown core to accommodate the number of renters who want to stay close to city's financial, shopping and nightlife hubs.

Still, city planners continue to push for development in neighbourhoods closer to the downtown core — and this may be the reason why the No. 2 spot was taken by the southeastern neighbourhoods of Ritchie, Hazeldean and King Edward Park.

Over the last few years there's been a push to redevelop the city's downtown core into a commercial and residential hot spot.

After 2002, 65 % of the new builds in these cities were still in the downtown core, but the shift was away from single, family homes to high - rise condo buildings.

«City officials realized that they needed to redevelop and revitalize the downtown core and the only way to do that is to attract families back into the core,» explains Slobodan.

Coupled with this, the city's 375th anniversary is expected to attract tourism throughout the year, particularly in the downtown core.

But to really help you narrow down the best community to buy this year, we divided up the Winnipeg communities into two categories: The core includes all the urban, closer - to - downtown communities in the city of Winnipeg.

While renting a small place in the city is good when you're childless, many feel a need for more space and more permanency and this leads to house - hunting further and further away from the downtown core.

Cities with compact downtown cores or cycling paths (Yellowknife, Victoria) top the list, while those maligned for sprawl (Vaughan) fare poorly.

In addition, many professionals who work downtown are migrating towards the city core, where many of the homes were built between the 1930s and 1950s.

But drill down and the CMHC numbers start to reveal an alarming trend: a concentration of foreign - owned condos in a city's downtown core.

The trio of investors paid $ 2.2 million for a plot of land at 31A and 33 Parliament St., on the east side of the city's downtown core.

Of the four cities we looked at, Toronto is the only one where homes 20 minutes from the city core are smaller — by an average of 12 % — than homes right downtown; Calgarians end up paying roughly the same price - per - square - foot for their living space whether they buy 30 or 60 minutes from the city centre; and in Vancouver, it can be more costly to live 50 minutes out than it is to live closer to downtown.

We've divided Calgary's neighbourhoods up into three categories: the core includes all the urban downtown communities, the inner suburbs are all the older, commuter neighbourhoods and the outer suburbs are the communities typically 45 minutes or more from the city centre.

From our central San Diego location, we provide veterinary care to the people and pets of Burlingame, South Park, Golden Hill and Grant Hill, Stockton and Logan Heights, Sherman Heights, Barrio Logan, East Village & the Marina, Downtown, Core - Columbia, Cortez Hills, Middletown, Little Italy and Harborview, Banker's Hill, Park West and Hillcrest, University Heights, Normal Heights, North Park & City Heights, the College Area and all surrounding areas.

Located in the downtown core, Fairmont Royal York is minutes from the city's biggest events and attractions including: The CN Tower, Ripley's Aquarium of Canada, Air Canada Centre, Rogers Centre, the Eaton Centre, and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

A few weeks ago, a group of us were talking about the approaching summit, fantasizing about far - off places to escape to: cottages, different cities, neighborhoods and parks outside the downtown core.

Bob Buckhorn, the Mayor of Tampa, joins Peter to share his joy about the exploding growth happening in the urban core of the city, such as the new Riverwalk in Downtown Tampa.

From its position on the central coast of the city's downtown core, the Harbourfront Centre overlooks a narrow stretch of the Singapore Strait and the nearby island of Sentosa, its vista shaped by the contorted twist of rollercoaster loops and the spires of fantasy palaces found within the Universal Studios theme park.

Strategically located within the downtown core directly across a new shopping complex and with a 360 - degree view of the city and Corniche, The Langham, Jeddah is expected to open in 2020.

In its downtown core, you feel the city hustle and bustle, along with the shade from skyscrapers, yet a short walk over the bridge and you're enjoying the peaceful Southbank parklands, facing the skyline and the river.

Shelli Margolin - Mayer presents updates on the downtown core development strategy, catalyst events, and sociable city initiatives.

The Bohem Art Hotel is located in Budapest's downtown core, in the 5th district, close to the Danube River and the city's famous shopping street, Váci utca.

When I think of capital cities, I imagining bustling downtown cores filled with an abundance of towering skyscrapers.

Located in the picturesque Spokane Valley, the Mirabeau Park Hotel is only a short drive from downtown Spokane, the Industrial Park, city business core and entertainment options.

Step back in time at Château Vieux - Montréal, located in the heart of the city's downtown core.

Dennis was the Creative Director for The Mob Museum: National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, a $ 43 million project in downtown Las Vegas, designed to attract new audiences to the city core, housed in the historic federal courthouse where the Kefauver Hearings into organized crime were held.

Art Toronto is Canada's international contemporary and modern art fair, located at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in the city's downtown core.

They started in the city's downtown core and have been following the path of discarded plastic, eventually making their way to the ocean.