Sentences with phrase «first focus cities»

So we made this four - minute video based on visits to three of our first focus cities — Austin, Chicago and Memphis, plus some footage from New York and DC — to give more people a sense of the way protected bike lanes are improving American streets and cities.

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First, we need to focus on the 80 % of the population who live in the nation's cities or surrounding metro areas.

«Our focus has always been [to] take care of local first,» said Holy City's Brown.

Based in New York City, the organization was labeled by Google as a «think tank» focused on developing technology to help people in emerging markets get online for the first time.

Nissan is focusing on the biggest cities first — Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City — to develop the infrastructure required to charge its fully electric cars.

He co-founded a group called BetterTO to organize discussions on issues facing the city — the first, held in March, focused on housing.

Charlie O'Donnell has raised his first fund focused on New York City startups.

Fun Fact: Says Heath: «We've always placed a focus on staying personally connected to the mission first - hand, so in addition to hosting regular team giving events, we also developed our Hive Initiation program: On the day that each new employee joins Bombas, before doing anything else, they are given 10 pairs of donation socks to walk around the city [with] and hand out, while interacting first - hand with those living on the streets.»

So far, however, cities have been focused mostly on attracting Amazon in the first place.

First, they must carefully choose their opportunities and, we think, focus on cities.

The result of a partnership between HEC Montréal and the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, CDL - Montreal is the city's first world - class startup support program focused on capitalizing its expertise in AI.

First American Equipment Finance is a City National Bank Company focused on providing equipment finance solutions for CNB clients.

Dr Billings, who was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.

She focuses on his first encounter with the city (in 1833) and on his subsequent stay there when preparing for the priesthood (1846 - 1847).

Emilio Orozco de la Garza, Managing Partner of ONBD Group, believes the nation can accommodate up to 75 locations, but he plans to focus initially on opening the first five Steak and Ales in Mexico City.

Imagine 3 days in the heart of Los Angeles — the world's most entertaining city — where you can focus on all the magic and mystery that attracted you to food in the first place.

Instead, their draw allowed Leicester City to claim their first ever top flight crown, with Mauricio Pochettino's men switching their focus to securing second place with two games remaining.

«We need to focus on our game first and if we succeed to win all of our remaining eight games maybe we can have a look at the Chelsea and City results.

Arsenal was given one of the weakest team in this CL competition.Everybody expected a win, like by big margin but the whole match there was no fight and desire.The game was so poor at all front last night.City and Man Utd played their hearts out even though they were defeated.Man Utd players witnessed a horrific injury to their team mate, that will affect their focus and rhythm but they fought with desire to win the game till the end.City were the better team than Juventus, they played really good.I have even read an article on Sky that states even though Man utd and City is defeated they still can qualify the group stage, thats how their performance were reassuring.But Arsenal were really poor from starting the game till end.Zagreb got their first win in CL since 1999, that says it all.

«But first, we have to focus on City because qualification is at stake.

Sky Sports report him saying, «We want to finish strongly, we need to focus on our game first and if we suceed to win all of our remaining eight games maybe we can have a look at the Chelsea and City results.

In turn, their focus will now be on the Champions League, where they face Manchester City in Paris in the first leg of their quarter - final clash on Wednesday night.

Instead of laughing at Spurs let's concerntrate on ourselves.Let us first win trophies like EPL and UCL to put ourselves in a position to laugh at others.Anyway we should focus on outdoing Man Utd, Man City and Chelsh * t than laying emphasis on mid-table team like Spurs.

The English midfielder was among the goals in midweek as Sunderland saw off a stern challenge from lower league opponents Exeter City and the focus will now be on getting that first win on board as quick as possible and what better time to do it than before the international break.

«We can not deny we are close to winning the league but we have to keep working and keep focused, as we did since the first day, (going) game by game, step by step,» said City midfielder Fernandinho.

The cost of historic preservation and whether Crystal Lake Park District residents would be willing to pay will be the focus Thursday night as the future of one of the city's first mansions is considered.

I received a media advisory yesterday from my friends at School Food FOCUS indicating that Chicago Public Schools and its food service provider Chartwells will announce today a first - of - its - kind initiative to serve only * chicken raised without antibiotics to the city's K - 12 students.

In the meantime, the Mayor and the city's first lady kept the focus of the day on reducing violence stemming from mental illness.

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In his first State of the City speech, Comptroller John Liu focused on his policies — and Jeremy Lin.

«I think [de Blasio] has a drawn an appropriate line to date as it relates to standing up for the interests of the city, but first and foremost making sure that he's focused on governing as the chief executive officer of the Big Apple.»

The first hearing will be focusing local government and government operations spending, generally the day when the state's big - city mayors come to Albany to lobby state lawmakers in person.

The Commissioner said: «the focus of the smart city programme basically includes provision of security and surveillance, implementation of a metro fibre network and e-Governance, adding that apart from HD cameras with gantries deployed in the first phase, other scope of the project involves integration of the deployed cameras with Centralized Emergency Command and Control Centre (CCC), provision of road signature structure and street lights across the State.

In that speech, she touted her accomplishments, including a ban on employers asking job applicants about their salary history, going to court to protect special needs children being forced to sit on dangerously hot buses without air conditioning and creating the first city agency focused on veterans.

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WILLOWBROOK — The city's first publicly funded wellness community — a neighborhood with retail shops, medical facilities and affordable housing focused on residents» health — is taking over a shuttered tuberculosis hospital on Staten Island.

Hahn, a first - time candidate, wants the city to focus more on reconfiguring the former Memorial Boulevard Middle School as a local arts center.

Degruy has visited and worked in a number of Rochester City schools, saying at first her methods were met with resistance, some thinking that focusing on one group of students meant neglecting another.

Last week Centre for Cities and local Chambers of Commerce held the first hustings for the Sheffield City Region mayoral election with all the leading candidates, focusing in particular on their plans for the local economy (Dave Allen of the English Democrats could not attend).

McGrath, 57, a personal injury attorney from Hewlett and first - time political candidate, focused on keeping the Senate in GOP control, arguing that a Democratic win would allow New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to siphon school and tax aid from Long Island.

When the Rivington House scandal first blew up this spring, press coverage and official investigations, including those by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, focused on City Hall.

The mayor said he had reviewed the city's preparation plans with Commissioner Doherty to ensure snow removal efforts were being focused first in high - needs communities, like on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.

Mayor Bill de Blasio hewed closely to his campaign theme in his first State of the City address, focusing on income inequality and vowing to raise workers» wages.

«While polls go up and polls go down, the mayor remains focused on keeping NYC the safest big city in America, adding over 65,000 pre-K seats, creating more affordable housing than in decades, the first ever rent freeze, the lowest unemployment rate since the recession, and making New York a fairer city for its millions of residents,» said Peter Kadushin, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio.

At the end of July, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota unveiled the NYC Subway Action Plan and proposed that the city and the state split the cost of the $ 836 million first phase, which focuses on signal and track maintenance, car reliability, system safety and cleanliness and customer communications.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state leCity, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state lecity's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state leCity, they are decided at the state level.

EAST HARLEM — City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weCity address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for wecity - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weeks.

Garodnick refused to address reports that he is considering vying for the coveted position of City Council speaker, saying he is focused first on winning his re-election race.

After weeks of mostly procedural activity to start its new four - year term, the New York City Council convened Wednesday afternoon for its first legislation - focused 2018 meeting, which included discussion and reintroduction of bills from the previous session that had not passed, as well as the introduction of new bills.

James won her first City Council race on the Working Families Party line alone, but has insisted she's focused on the Democratic nomination.