Sentences with phrase «focusing the cities with»

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Eventually, he ended his partnership with 10 Arts and Westend Bistro, despite their success — after deciding to focus on Le Bernardn and his quality of life at home in New York City.

Sexsmith particularly likes Signature Bank (sbny), a New York City — based lender with a focus on small businesses and commercial real estate.

They sent a survey to an email list of Kansas City residents that Howard had collected and conducted a focus group with six current loyal members to find out what they liked — and didn't — about Howard's current business model.

The career - focused social network ranked the world's cities on the proportion of the workforce with tech skills.

Entrepreneur met with Tollin in his New York City apartment to discuss the life and leadership lessons he learned following these men, and what the process of working on a quarter century - long project taught him about creativity, focus and the pursuit of one's true passion.

With a slew of startups focused on backend internet services and virtualization, Portland now has a nickname that matches its weather: Cloud City.

When she's not working alongside her husband, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, McCray is focused on her own work with pay equity, domestic violence and mental health.

Based in New York City, her designs focus on draping, asymmetrical finishes, and styles that play with the conventional definitions of gender.

RadioShack started looking for other opportunities to throw itself into, but rather than focus on improving itself with the offerings it already had, the company tried out new concepts with new stores to address customers» needs: Computer City to sell computers, Famous Brand Electronics for refurbished electronics, McDuff and Video Concepts for audio and video, Energy Express to sell batteries, and Incredible Universe, which showed a strong resemblance to Best Buy.

We need to focus on the work ahead — on building a company that everyone is proud to be associated with: employees, riders, drivers, and the cities you serve.

A: Rooted in Hope will be working on a new project focused on water and sustainable farming practices with the City of Refuge in Ghana.

• MedMen, a Culver City, Calif. - based company providing management services to licensed cannabis operators, raised $ 60 million for its cannabis - focused MedMen Opportunity Fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

That includes a focus on communities of color, the military community, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and those in small towns and cities.

They're focusing on San Francisco and New York City, but they're also in talks with Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project in Las Vegas.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

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.»

Google wanted to focus on those efforts before continuing with work in the eight new cities, Porat said.

Ben - Ishay's passion has translated into a business with more than 300 employees and 14 locations on the East Coast, with a focus in New York City, along with the launch of macaroons.

Perhaps due to the prickly nature of the Canada - China relationship, Harper's visit has a heavy focus on trade and economics, with the prime minister leading a Canadian business delegation to the industrial city of Hangzhou on Friday and Saturday before heading to the capital, Beijing, for two more days of meetings.

I'm looking at starting a business with my initial primary focus to be lending money to people in my city.

On our drive to the city, Lola and I came up with a list questions such as: What are the main areas of focus for the ASPCA?

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

With a personal desire and eye for design and innovation, Shaul has focused his entrepreneurial energy into the emerging technology industry by founding various innovative startups and startup incubators around the U.S. Initiating efforts include being co-founder of OfficePort, a co-working business center with two locations in Kansas City and one in ChicWith a personal desire and eye for design and innovation, Shaul has focused his entrepreneurial energy into the emerging technology industry by founding various innovative startups and startup incubators around the U.S. Initiating efforts include being co-founder of OfficePort, a co-working business center with two locations in Kansas City and one in Chicwith two locations in Kansas City and one in Chicago.

She is on the board of Women Entrepreneurs New York City, an initiative to encourage female entrepreneurship, with a focus on underserved communities.

It focuses on the growing north or south freight corridor connecting key commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with major industrial cities in Mexico.

There are other cities that have focused on replacing disappearing industries such as steel or autos with technology, but they have big research universities or hospitals that naturally feed students and startups, Lang said.

With a focus on disrupting the city's economy, the protests have forced the city to pay more than $ 3 million in police overtime and have led to lost revenue after a couple of major concerts were canceled.

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.

The public discourse on ridesharing usually focuses on the physical safety of riders, but Arcade City could be on the verge of disruption with a ridesharing solution that has the publicly possessed codebase to make ridesharing feel like it is empowering community members.

GCT's focus on innovation in health, fintech, smart cities innovation and the future of work aligns with MaRS» sectors and complements the support that MaRS offers to Canadian entrepreneurs in Toronto.

The report — «The New York City Tech Ecosystem,» by HR&A Advisors — notes that roughly half the tech jobs are at employers with a main focus that is not technology, such as finance and media companies, or hospitals and government agencies.

«Like many other Canadian cities, Calgary is embracing diversity and expanding into new sectors with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship,» says Jim Dewald, dean of the Haskayne School of Business.

He has remained focused on creating a balanced approach to dealing with the city's growth challenges while taking on wealthy suburban developers, who declared war on him before his landslide re-election.

A Singapore - based company with 250 employees in the Lion City gets recognition for focus on people and skills.

Ivanhoé's U.S. expansion plan is focused on nine key cities with dense urban centres, and the group is behind many of the largest U.S. real estate deals of the past decade.

The policy suggestions are contained in a wide - ranging, 114 - page report prepared for the Privy Council Office in November based on small focus - group sessions with Canadians in nine cities.

As part of this drive, Flexado recently expanded into Belgium with a key focus on its major cities, including Antwerp and Brussels.

He is primarily responsible for all aspects of the origination and underwriting process including sourcing, evaluating, structuring, and negotiating investment and finance opportunities for all property types throughout the United States with a focus on New York City.

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.

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And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

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

The picture of agricultural plenty in blessed fields, with which we have become familiar, gives way to a focus on the city.12 The city is the new Jerusalem, the center of new heavens and a new earth.

The New York WaterMaker is a patent - pending water source replication system that not only functions as a commercial water filter, but also replicates the exact hardness, molecular structure, and chemical composition of a specific location's water, with a key focus on replicating New York City water.

For the Ponca City, Okla. - based company, this includes hosting cooking classes and making a series of instructional videos focusing on how its customers can use its products to get the very best taste with its equipment.

Susan Wilson, group packaging director at James Cropper, said: «We've always focused on creating personalised solutions for brands but now, with Tailor Made, we're taking our bespoke service to a new level — and we're sure it will be well received in a city as stylish as New York.

At Andrew Carmellini's veg - focused Little Park in New York City, pastry chef Jennifer Luk crisps soppy brioche with cinnamon sugar and crumbles it over her brioche - infused ice cream to mimic the warming flavors.

Along with the platform BTN and IBWSS UK show, BTN also organizes USA Trade Tasting in New York City, IBWSS show in San Francisco, ABID Conference in New York, London Wine Competition, London Spirits Competition, London Beer Competition and owns a magazine called BevRoute which is focused on the import and distribution business.

Gourmet was upscale, slick, in color, with a focus on Europe and New York City, and most of its recipes carrying French names.

In the age when everyone's a blogger obsessed with food, Instagram has found its niche as young diners snap photos of their meals, from the health - focused fast - casual restaurants to the finer dining independents of cities big and small.