Sentences with phrase «in city neighbourhoods»

Airbnb estimates its users spent about $ 417 million in city neighbourhoods last year.

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Andrew Pask, a 44 - year - old City of Vancouver neighbourhood planner, says he and his colleagues are called in to work on files that range in scale from single - parcel development applications to regional strategies.

Instead, he wants the city to encourage demand, by making it easier to build in mature neighbourhoods and more attractive for families to buy and live in them.

The value that you're getting in this neighbourhood, relative to what you'll get in the rest of the city, is really strong, says Chris MacDonald with Re / Max Premier Inc..

This neighbourhood is ring - fenced by power lines and an industrial area to the north and west, as well as by two of the main arteries in the city.

Homes in Grovenor and Sherbrooke — our top two neighbourhoods — are about $ 60,000 below the average home price in the city.

For $ 400,000 you can afford to buy into most neighbourhoods in this city and almost 90 % of the areas average under $ 500,000.

The fact that there are now aggregator sites and apps such as Yipit.com designed to rope together all the deals offered by all the sites in any one city or neighbourhood illustrates the commodification of the business.

His eponymous restaurant, Jose Enrique, is hidden in an unassuming yellow shop in the gentrifying Santurce area, a gritty neighbourhood with graffiti - covered walls where most of the city's art galleries have set up shop.

The current report doesn't include every single neighbourhood in Canada, but it does cover all the big cities and most medium - sized ones.

One store will be in Washington's Georgetown neighbourhood, while the other location will be in Pentagon City, a mall in Arlington, Va..

While the average neighbourhood price in the city fell by 3 % last year, the drop in prices here was a little more modest.

«The targeting of our inner city neighbourhoods was a bit pernicious... we had more payday loans in some kilometres than Tim Hortons.»

Larry's father, after whom the company is named, started the business as a small boutique in Toronto's Cabbagetown, a neighbourhood then considered the outskirts of the city.

Coworking and shared office space in Toronto is now abundant with facilities in many neighbourhoods across the city.

The makeshift memorial created in Olive Square, a backyard for this vertical neighbourhood, represents the rich public life this densely populated city offers

For the most part, the aging demographic prefers larger, well - appointed homes in tony neighbourhoods, but is also increasingly purchasing luxury condos in major cities such as Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal.

When I posed this question to Mayor Mandel, he replied that «the City needs to be far more creative» in facilitating the development of housing in the core neighbourhoods that will be friendly for young families.

The condo market is thriving in every city in Canada, and many people are investing in condos in Griffintown in Montreal, or various neighbourhoods in Toronto and Vancouver.

Bob Blakey worked at the Calgary Herald in the 1980s and, by coincidence, penned a column about the $ 1 home sale phenomenon in the paper's 1983 Christmas Eve edition (a close friend was forced to sell his newly built home in the city's Shawnessy neighbourhood for a buck).

Just 18 months after deciding to leave his position, his rapidly growing Castle Community Bank has helped some of the most vulnerable people in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.

Eckstein made his comments this week at a soup kitchen his evangelical group funds in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, situated in one of the city's underprivileged neighbourhoods.

The group is expected to appear before a judge in the Al Thawra neighbourhood of the country's second - largest city, Omdurman, Middle East Concern (MEC) reports.

Head of Arts and Museums Culture and Neighbourhood Services Leicester City Council Sarah Levitt grew up in Leek, Staffordshire.

1 group received most of their care at a satellite clinic in their neighbourhood, which was an inner - city, socio - economically deprived area.

A few days after the Valdimontone contrada won the Palio last August, some friends and I walked to the contrada's neighbourhood centre, perched at the tip of a hill with the city unravelling below, and sat down in the shade to enjoy the view.

And we didn't get it Daniel Wesangula Read more Most of Kenya has remained calm since the vote, but several people have been shot and killed in clashes between police and opposition supporters in poor neighbourhoods in Nairobi, as well as in the western city of Kisumu

Lagos State has one of the most expensive housing markets of any city in Africa, and, as the rich increasingly use property as a store of value, poor people — especially those who live around wealthy neighbourhoods — are at greater risk of losing their homes.

They go to a public place in their neighbourhood, and for most of them, especially in inner city constituencies, voting may be their only cause to visit their local school or community centre.

During that period, our rulers created cities whose essential workers can not afford to live in them, cities full of ugly buildings and drably uniform centres and angry frightened neighbourhoods where people do not know their neighbours.

In reality, voters inclined to vote for one party or the other will probably clump together in the same neighbourhoods of the city, so LR might well retain one seaIn reality, voters inclined to vote for one party or the other will probably clump together in the same neighbourhoods of the city, so LR might well retain one seain the same neighbourhoods of the city, so LR might well retain one seat.

Shops and other services are more concentrated in town and city neighbourhoods, and urban residents are much more likely to use public transport, share heating and housing, and have lower carbon footprints than their rural brethren.

Two years later I submitted the final version of my thesis and said good bye to my crowded bench, ceased my daily trek over Mont - Royal from my apartment in the city's «Plateau» neighbourhood, and headed westward on Hwy 401 to Ryerson University, to begin a 2 - year graduate program in journalism.

Large swathes of the city are sparsely populated, particularly in the poor neighbourhoods that suffered the most severe flood damage.

«We have walkable neighbourhoods in many towns and cities in Canada, but they have to actually be used to help us reduce our risks of developing chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and its associated complications,» says study senior author, Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta, MUHC internal medicine physician and an associate professor of medicine at McGill University.

Even so, there are indications that investors are already looking to higher ground elsewhere in the city, such as the traditionally poor, black neighbourhoods of Little Haiti and Liberty Ccity, such as the traditionally poor, black neighbourhoods of Little Haiti and Liberty CityCity.

But listen, we live in northern Ontario now, quite a ways from a major city, and the doctor's office was in a very nice shopping neighbourhood.

If you get creative, and intelligently so, you could honestly gain the youngest looking skin in your city, the clearest skin in your neighbourhood, or the most glowing and attractive skin tone in the whole world.

Years before Vogue named Toronto's Queen Street West one of the Coolest neighbourhoods in the world, Yorkville was one of the best places to be in the city.

But it's her focus on customisation, an accessible price point (average basket size is $ 100) and an oh - so - specific retail strategy — most of her stores are in college towns, or in cities or neighbourhoods where the brand's online sales are high — that have resulted in annual revenue of $ 150 million and a valuation north of $ 1 billion.

The EliteSingles approach: The range for potential matches is only 250 meters, which can severely limit your dating options, especially if you live in a neighbourhood that doesn't contain many singles your own age, or if you live outside the city.

7) Be a tourist in your own town and scout out the free things to do We're all guilty of staying in our own neighbourhoods and going to the places close to home rather than exploring our city like a tourist would.

As with most large and cosmopolitan cities it has a gay Village, which is a lovely welcoming neighbourhood and a nice part of town to be in for a date.

Set in a blighted, inner - city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman — the mother of a troubled teen son — who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

Allen is a drawcard, dominating every scene he's in and shepherding a small army of children across the city, and the Orthodox neighbourhood is one rarely captured so colourfully on film.

It is super easy to dash in and out of city traffic or take a corner in a suburban neighbourhood.

Because most of the people left behind in the inner - city neighbourhoods after the «white flight» were of lower income, many cities lost a significant portion of their tax base.

With well - established residential areas and continuous construction of new homes in more economically viable neighbourhoods, Guelph is a city that offers a chance on the housing ladder for people and families across all price brackets.

North York is a multicultural rich neighbourhood that only joined Toronto - Mega City in 1998.