Sentences with phrase «house building developers»

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«We've built a large research and development center near our main headquarters in Kyoto that literally houses thousands of developers with new recruits joining all the time.

Those buildings now house 12,000 employees from across Gilbert's Rock Ventures business portfolio of roughly 110 affiliated companies, including Rock Gaming, the developer and owner of urban casinos in the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Baltimore markets.

Developer Ted Libfeld was the first in Ontario to offer pre-construction sales on the houses that he built, but stopped once others replicated his technique.

In Staten Island — which is «still a pain in the ass to get to» — Douglaston is building affordable housing for seniors, and the developer is also building affordable rentals in the Bronx.

And most of all, don't increase those Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund fees developers would pay for opting out of building affordable units.

He says more and more housing developers realize there is a huge market potential for these types of green buildings; buyers understand there will not only be lower operating costs, but they will also be in a community of like - minded people.

Uber is planning a major restoration of the seven - story Sears building — renamed Uptown Station by developers — to house thousands of employees starting in 2017.

PartnerHero provides customer service, design, and engineering for startups, but we also have an in - house team of product managers, designers, and web developers building homegrown tools for our teams and our partners to use.

Councils identify and package together brownfield land that can be used for development into a housing zone, remove all unnecessary planning restrictions and partner with a developer to build new homes.

The developers of Pacific Park face some risk; the amended development agreement imposes a 2025 deadline for 2,250 affordable housing units, nearly 1,470 of which remain to be built.

Previously overlooked sites are therefore being considered, just as regional cities build their momentum and developers and investors seek opportunities for house price growth.

Another developer built low income housing for poor people.

The federal government was the main source of subsidy in the «60s and «70s, offering for - profit developers below - market interest rates and tax incentives to build and maintain affordable housing.

To criticize the Reagan housing policy is not to recommend returning to the time when the federal government built or subsidized for - profit developers to build the socially destabilizing, high - rise apartment complexes symbolized by the infamous Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago's South Side.

At this point in the day — call it noonish — we were in the heart of Fishtown, which is very Philly 2016: aluminum - sided row houses abutting boxy condos going up as fast as developers can build them.

Local developer Ben Weinschneider had proposed building 38 townhouses and 36 detached single - family houses in the Residences of Regent Park.

The Park District solicited bids from developers to buy the building and rehabilitate it for senior housing.

But now almost a year later, it appears as though they have; 421a is not only essential for developers, it's the only way to ensure that affordable housing gets built.

Andrew, on the other hand, has often appeared callow and controlling: He drove a Jaguar with AMC ESQ plates; he ordered up 30,000 copies of a 150 - page brochure on his Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tenure; and after a disastrous 2002 run for governor, he went to work for a developer he had investigated at HUD, raking in $ 2.5 million over three years helping to build luxury marinas, of all things.

Because today's sprawl is too often built with public debt that allows upstate developers to build big houses on large lots in what were, till yesterday, green fields.

At an earlier community forum, Johnson took credit for having forced the developer to increase the level of affordable housing to be built from 20 % to 26 %.

The new Affordable New York Housing Program lets developers of rental apartment buildings off the hook for property taxes for 35 years.

Real estate developer Mark Stagg is setting an example for other companies to follow, making a mint off the de Blasio administration's desperation for more housing for the homeless and its willingness to go along with a bait - and - switch on a proposed apartment building in the Bronx.

Currently it mandates developers who build in rezoned areas of the city pick from one of three options for affordable housing: 25 percent of their units rented to those making, on average, 60 percent of the Area Median Income, 30 percent at 80 percent of the AMI or 30 percent at 120 percent.

Mr. de Blasio, in pursuit of his goal to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing in a decade, wanted Albany to renew the tax credit but require all developers getting it to build affordable housing, no matter where their development was, and also wanted the program to include a mansion tax on sales of residences worth $ 1.75 million or more.

The governor again echoed complaints from building trade unions that the mayor's plan would not obligate developers to pay prevailing wages to construction workers, wages Mr. de Blasio and the Real Estate Board of New York would be too expensive and would make large scale affordable housing construction unfeasible.

The Sherman Plaza developers, Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust, need approval from the Council for the spot rezoning to include more affordable housing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninhousing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninHousing (MIH) rezoning plan.

In her testimony before the Council, Ms. Glen noted that the 421a credit — a frequent target for liberals — is available for most projects across the city, but developers are only required to include any affordable housing in their buildings in the so - called «geographical exclusion area» covering just 16.5 percent of the city.

De Blasio took the side of developers, insisting such a wage requirement would make it too expensive to build low - to middle - income housing — his ultimate goal in reforming 421 - a.

Meanwhile, the new 421 - a program, which gives a tax break to developers in exchange for affordable housing, no longer helps residents of the community where the project is built.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

A bill to repeal the vacancy allowance has languished in the State Assembly for years, but some see an opening to inject the issue into negotiations over the renewal of a tax exemption for developers who build affordable housing.

What: Convicted of bribery and official misconduct in 2008 for offering to help a developer acquire city land if he built her house for free.

David Cameron announced increased discounts to encourage council tenants to buy their homes, alongside a «build now, pay later» scheme to encourage developers to build on government land and only pay for it once a house is sold.

And, when I need, to I'll stand up to developers on delivering affordable housing, ensuring that the London Plan is amended with a 50 % target for affordable homes and measures to ensure that Londoners, not overseas investors, always get first dibs on the homes we build.

Arne Duncan has $ 4 billion - plus to push privatization (on the day this blog is published, he will visit a charter school in Brooklyn that achieves remarkable results; I assume he will not visit the one in Queens that is housed in trailers in a muddy field, placed there to help a developer sell apartments in a not - yet - built building).

I'll establish Homes for Londoners, a new in - house developer at City Hall, led by me, working with councils and private developers to lever in funding and get thousands of new affordable and market homes built on spare public land and brownfield.

The former Teamster was an ally of ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and found a surprising opponent in Mr. de Blasio — a friend of the minority - dominated service sector and public employee unions — who said he believed building the most affordable housing possible was more important than making sure developers paid union wages.

Activists have been calling to an end of the tax break recently, which they say only aids developers to build more luxury housing.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development never followed up to see whether developers who got discounts on city land in exchange for building...

The messy end of session also includes agreements on short extenders — one additional year for mayoral control of the New York City schools, and a six month extension of a tax break for real estate developers who build some affordable housing.

The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development is looking for a developer to build up to 225 affordable housing units and 68,000 sqHousing Preservation and Development is looking for a developer to build up to 225 affordable housing units and 68,000 sqhousing units and 68,000 square...

The 421 - a tax credit that gives developers a tax break for setting aside 20 percent of a building for affordable housing will continue for four years.

In a statement, the de Blasio campaign said, «Bill de Blasio has put forward the most comprehensive affordable housing plan of any candidate for Mayor — one that will create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing and require developers to build more permanent affordable units.

Developers are reluctant to build adaptable houses because they think they are less profitable.

Developers argue the tax break is necessary for the city to build affordable housing and meet Mr. de Blasio's ambitious construction goals, especially as the cost of land skyrockets.

Without a national planning policy that specifically considers accessible and adaptable housing for disabled people, local authorities have no obligation to make sure they're delivering the right kind of housing and find it challenging to require developers to build to a higher standard.

Their most recent debate is about the 421 - a program, which provides tax abatements to developers in exchange for building affordable housing.

The project was made possible under the Suffolk County Housing our Homeless Heroes Act, which authorizes the county to identify qualified housing developers to build handicap accessible single - familyHousing our Homeless Heroes Act, which authorizes the county to identify qualified housing developers to build handicap accessible single - familyhousing developers to build handicap accessible single - family homes.

Reyna, an advocate for affordable housing, recently pushed an agreement with Rheingold Brewery developer Read Property Group to include «permanently affordable» housing units in the Bushwick building.