Sentences with phrase «expensive city building»

Urban schools, in particular, are often hardest hit due to increasingly unavailable or expensive city building space.

Not exact matches

The far - south Crocker - Amazon neighborhood is as expensive as Ciutat Vella in Barcelona ($ 509 per square foot), which has «Roman foundations, medieval buildings, and the atmospheric Gothic Quarter — and the otherworldly architecture of [Antoni] Gaudi throughout the city.»

Corcoran said Trump's ads claimed that he was building the most expensive — and by extension, most luxurious — apartments in New York City.

Why then, should we pay to dig large and expensive tunnels between cities when we could build smaller systems inside a city that serve more people?

Housing is becoming increasingly expensive to build due to government fees and regulations on building in most cities, and government programs merely subsidize this process at a cost to the taxpayers; and rent control has been a disaster because that immediately kills off any new construction and reduces the incentive for land owners and landlords to maintain their property because their income is fixed.

The Environmental Protection Agency has required the city to conduct asbestos abatement in many of the buildings, which the city says is prohibitively expensive.

Arsenal built the stadium in the most expensive city in the country to build in and never once fell out of those all - important Champions League places.

City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin called the East 91st Street project «an outrageously expensive idea,» saying, «We can't afford this garbage dump and we shouldn't build it.»

The $ 27 million contract to purchase One Seneca Tower — Buffalo's tallest building — has fallen through after less than two weeks, as the wealthy New York City buyer pulled out of the deal because it was too expensive without investment partners to spread out the costs.

Military spending on expensive major weapons systems built in large cities like aircraft, ships, and submarines, has grown much faster than military spending on personnel, (which has actually declined as military spending overall has surged), who frequently hail from rural areas.

«My constituents and I refuse to let vandals tag our buildings and overpasses, creating time - consuming, expensive clean - up jobs for hard - working business owners and major eye - sores for drivers coming in and out of our city.

STATEN ISLAND — One city agency under constant criticism from the Staten Island borough president for its late and expensive work got the OK to build a new office closer to its critic — at a cost of about half a million taxpayer dollars a year.

But for the US, it might be too expensive even to build links that run from NIST's atomic clocks in Colorado to the financial hub in New York City.

The report cautions, however, that building relocations should probably be confined to more rural areas, and that doing so in New York City and Long Island suburbs would be too expensive or virtually impossible.

This means building warehouses in big cities, where space is tight and expensive.

Josh Kovacs (Stiller) is a detail - oriented and hard - working building manager of New York City's most expensive high - rise.

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

What keeps Big 5 ebook prices high are their fixed costs: expensive people working expensively in expensive office buildings in expensive (but oh so trendy) coastal cities.

The report, titled «In High Demand» and released Monday by Ryerson University's City Building Institute, favours a tax on foreign buyers — similar to the one introduced in Vancouver last summer — but suggests it should be implemented in addition to a «progressive surtax» on expensive homes owned by people who aren't paying income tax, including people with foreign capital.

«Better still, we have zero lawn maintenance and we're still building equity in one of Canada's most expensive cities.»

While renting may be your reality for a longer period of time, the career opportunities and upward mobility often found in more expensive cities can also give you a long - term financial boost, allowing you to pay off your student loans faster or build equity in other ways.

This is why sometimes cities mistakenly think that having a no kill shelter is more expensive — it can be — but not if both animal control and the animal shelter are thinking, planning and acting with a no kill mindset to truly build a no kill community.

These expensive plastic buildings are destroying the city,» said Nina Pohl, an artist who runs the Schinkel Pavillon, an atmospheric G.D.R. - era structure now used for contemporary art exhibitions.

Part of the reason the city built the network at sidewalk level was that it would make it vastly more expensive to unbuild if the Monteseirín - Garvín coalition lost power.

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition - No, protected bike lanes are probably not too expensive for your city to build

The study found support for city subsidies to help make existing buildings more environmentally friendly; a $ 2.50 surcharge on the average household monthly electricity bill to support public education on energy use; and support for the installation of solar panels on city - owned buildings, even if the electricity generated is significantly more expensive than what what the government now pays for electrical power.

With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the world's most sustainable city.

Glaeser, Avent and others all say we have to stop worshipping the past and let a thousand skyscrapers bloom; I say we have to learn from that past and design our buildings and cities the way we did before there was oil and electricity, because not only are those energy sources going to be getting really expensive, they are going to be getting a lot less dependable as our climate chaos continues.

... shouldn't we be thinking about moving away from car - based city transport altogether, rather than simply building expensive alternative infrastructure for it?

If, for instance, the two firms are in different cities, and the idea is that the same people will stay in the same buildings, that the existing two IT systems will be continued (because they're too expensive to replace), and that the two offices will continue to be treated as separate profit centres for partners» remuneration purposes, then in my view you haven't got a merger at all.

Sam Glover: Actually, I just learned about an interesting consequence that I hadn't even thought about before, which was, we had an apartment building in the cities here that got completely flipped from affordable housing to expensive housing, and so everybody had to move and it was hundreds of people.

If you live in an expensive city but want to begin building real estate equity, there's another option: Buy an inexpensive home outside your metro area, in a community where there is rental demand from vacationers or locals and where you enjoy visiting and spending time.

Big lenders and investors historically tend to favor luxury, expensive buildings in the downtowns of major cities.

And in case you didn't notice, the names on many of the biggest and most expensive buildings in small towns and big cities around the world are lending institutions (i.e. banks)!

Strict city building codes and ordinances were making it more expensive to build single - family homes, thus making home ownership more costly for buyers.

JLL says despite a drop in the average price from last year, 101st Street NW is expected to remain the most expensive street in Edmonton with the recent commitment to build the Arena district, a large - scale mixed - use project incorporating the city's new NHL arena, which will revitalize some of the most important corners on 101st Street NW.

The General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue and Bank of America's tower on Bryant Park are the city's most expensive properties, both valued at about $ 1.94 billion.

How do you build up a sizable real estate portfolio when you live in one of the most expensive cities in America?