Sentences with phrase «for vacant buildings»

Paul Andreassen, a planning board member who beat out Roberti on the Independence party ballot, was unfazed by his win, stating that he «generated interest for the independents to come out and vote... My biggest platform is what can be done for vacant buildings and how they can be made viable again... [I'd like to] revitalize [our] community.»

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Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey got the idea for WeWork back in 2010 when they were both working in a partially vacant office building in Brooklyn.

For example, many landowners will place concrete blocks in the entrances to vacant land to stop vehicles getting past or a building owner may put up spiked security fencing or barbed wire.

For bargaining power, Lowe stressed the benefits of his occupancy: He already had a loyal following of high - caliber clients; he would give the building a clean, polished, updated look; and the landlord would incur costs if the building sat vacant for too loFor bargaining power, Lowe stressed the benefits of his occupancy: He already had a loyal following of high - caliber clients; he would give the building a clean, polished, updated look; and the landlord would incur costs if the building sat vacant for too lofor too long.

With the next - largest footprint is the uCity Square proposal for 6.5 million square feet of retail, residential, office, and lab space on 27 acres of existing buildings and vacant land owned by Wexford and the nonprofit University City Science Center along and north of Market Street between 34th and 39th Streets.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber, the ride - hailing company known for aggressive global expansion into hundreds of cities, has set its sights on Oakland, Calif., purchasing a vacant historic building across the bay from its San Francisco headquarters.

Buildings for the work were provided by the vacant churches left by wealthier people who were moving out of the disintegrating sections of the city.

CNN: Driven by personal tragedy, man builds crosses for Aurora victims, thousands of others In a vacant lot across from the site of last week's movie theater shooting, 12 white crosses stand solemnly, their arms covered in messages of hope and the ground around them full of flowers.

With the large plot now vacant, plans for new development caused the building to face demolition.

The four - story, 77 - year - old brick building, previously a traditional high school, was vacant when flooded by Katrina and had slouched into a rotting, mold - choked shelter for displaced residents.

ELMHURST — The Library board of trustees has formally approved a deal that will give the Park District 94,000 square feet of land in the center of Wilder Park, including the Wilder Mansion now used as the library building, in exchange for 35,000 square feet of vacant land in the northwest corner of the park, where library officials will put up a new building.

The pact, approved by trustees 4 - 2, gives the vacant historic building to the park district, allows for park improvements and for expansion of a village water reservoir.

One asked for $ 8.1 million to buy the same vacant land, on which a developer plans to build new homes.

The blocklong Discount Mega Mall at 2500 - 14 N. Milwaukee Ave. has sat vacant since June, when it was shut down for 112 building, health and safety code violations, including a crumbling exterior facade and inoperable plumbing that led to raw sewage accumulating in the building, planning officials said.

Then late last year, Trust for Public Land, a national non-profit conservation organization, bought a vacant building west of the park and held it for the Park District.

Don Wenzel, vice president of the S Group, which converted the 2027 - 2029 W. Pierce building, said that the next step for Wicker Park would be new construction on a number of vacant lots that still remain in the area.

United Airlines» planned move of its operations center from Elk Grove Township to Chicago's Willis Tower will hurt some businesses where workers regularly eat and party and nearby municipalities if the buildings stay vacant for very long.

The Preservation League of New York is launching an effort aimed at finding new uses for the many vacant industrial buildings dotting upstate New York communities.

«Being able to support this organization and keep it running has a real financial benefit to the city, not to mention quality of life benefits for the people who live on a street next to a vacant building,» Wright said.

«It went form vacant lots and burned out buildings to having an enormous amount of affordable housing for people.»

«The former South Junior building has sat in vacant decay for far too long.

Fortunately through programs like the Vacant Building Rehabilitation program, there can now be more opportunities available for those that wish to undertake such programs.»

Three dilapidated buildings sit on a vacant lumber yard in the Town of Smithtown and have been abandoned for about 12 years, according to town Councilman Edward Wehrheim.

Jacobowitz recently applied to the city for site plan approval to renovate the building, which has been vacant for 20 years.

While the Albany Convention Center Authority recently described the red X's placed on its vacant E-Comm buildings as simply a labeling designation for public safety officials, a recent photograph taken from above appears to show the roof of 6 E-Comm Square has caved in.

What was for decades a long strip of vacant land on the edge of the Fruit Belt is now sprouting the buildings of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - City officials toured St. George on Wednesday to discuss 55 Stuyvesant Place, a newly vacant building that officials hope to turn into a hub for innovation.

In advance of a deadline on Saturday, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) agreed to grant the Messier - run Kingsbridge National Ice Center another month to produce $ 138 million in funding for the first phase of the complex it plans to build at the site of the vacant armory in the Bronx.

The project, on Walnut Avenue between Fifth and Seventh streets, involved new construction for 32 units in seven buildings where vacant structures once stood, and the re-purposing of an historic, long - abandoned educational building, for nine additional units.

In the Bedford - Stuyvesant East and Weeksville cluster, a team led by Habitat for Humanity will construct 10 buildings with 63 units on 14 vacant lots.

The plan calls for the creation of low - equity housing cooperatives, reinvesting in NYCHA housing, developing community land trusts, creating tax abatements for developers and entrepreneurs who bring business into Central Brooklyn and hire local residents must be encouraged to hire locally, offering quality careers to residents and a moratorium on wealthy developers being allowed to buy up apartment buildings and leave the units vacant.

Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines on Wednesday made a push for a state law that would let the city decide on the sales of vacant MPS school buildings.

The agency regards the renovation of the 10 - story building, which has been vacant for 20 years, as an important project, spokesman Jason Conwall said.

Meanwhile, when asked whether the state is still committed to financing $ 138 million for this project, a spokesman for the Empire State Development would only say, «ESD remains committed to supporting the Kingsbridge National Ice Center, which will create 400 jobs and return a long - vacant building to use.»

There are also plans for Whitehall to release vacant land and office space, with developers enjoying a «build now, pay later» scheme to encourage production.

Landlords of rent - regulated buildings, however, rely on raising rent 20 percent in vacant units to recoup the losses they have acquired by subsidizing other apartments for years without adequate rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated apartments.

In a 10 - minute address, he went on to list what he has accomplished since he was first elected in 2005 — lower taxes, a budget surplus, the revival of the waterfront, opening Main Street to traffic, providing 22,000 summer jobs for youth, clearing vacant houses, adopting the Green Code and the boom in building and economic development.

Plans call for the long - vacant structure to be redone into a 23 - unit apartment building serve the growing housing needs of the adjacent Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

A hub would be built for the film industry and post-production companies on vacant industrial land in DeWitt.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- A site selection committee created by Governor Andrew Cuomo voted to recommend that Buffalo's next Amtrak Station be built downtown, rejecting the groundswell of support for resurrecting the massive and mostly - vacant NY Central Terminal on Buffalo's East Side.

The South Buffalo Democrat says while the former courthouse is vacant, the GSA is wasting money locally leasing space in private buildings for U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the U.S. Trustees, the Federal Defender and U.S. Tax Court.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has dropped a proposal to convert some vacant buildings at the former Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens into shelters for the homeless, a senior administration official told POLITICO New York Monday.

Under the Creedmoor plan, several now - vacant buildings on the 315 - acre campus in Queens Village would have been converted into housing for the homeless.

The prolific Brooklyn developer is planning a commercial building on the vacant site at 500 Kent Avenue, which offers 230,000 buildable square feet as - of - right, a spokesperson for Rabsky said.

James S. Rubin, Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal said, «The Northside and Southside communities now have new homes and a new space for businesses where before there had been vacant lots or deteriorating buildings.

The building was vacant, but created a gaping hole and a dangerous situation for anyone who ventured nearby.

Meanwhile, a partially vacant building at 552 W. 52nd St. that currently houses the Police Athletic League's William Duncan Center will become a 13 - story building that houses 110 affordable housing units for artist families and individuals, space for the PAL and an art gallery.

But city officials denied Cor the building permit based on this Catch 22 - like argument: Until the new streets are finished, the land surrounding the planned apartment buildings is technically just vacant land, potentially available for building.

So both sides had incentives to burn buildings — the buildings were actually insured for more money than they were worth as rentals, and if the building was destroyed, you could build free - market housing on the site while paying very low property taxes when it was vacant.

The Wauwatosa Woman's Club has asked the city to join the property containing its main building to a vacant lot it recently attempted to use for a parking lot expansion.