Sentences with phrase «including city construction»

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When he first made his venture public in 2002, it was still just an idea, and he insisted it was contingent upon the construction of a bridge to replace the island airport's existing ferry service — a project with many detractors, including then city councillor Olivia Chow, now the area's NDP member of Parliament.

In New York state, a multiyear celebration marking the bicentennial of the construction of the Erie Canal is underway along the canal corridor, which includes major cities like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.

After he took over as executive vice-president for construction in 2007, Ben Aïssa continued to land large contracts in Libya, including the construction of a $ 500 - million airport in the city of Benghazi.

Cities with the most apartment construction include Dallas, Houston and Austin, reflecting Texas strong recovery.

And construction costs — including materials and labor — rose nearly 4.5 percent in New York City in March from a year earlier, according to figures from national construction news magazine Engineering News - Record.

Dimon's stated narrative is that the project it s part of a commitment to New York City that includes creating new construction - related jobs.

Aside from offering multiple stylish designs for men and women, the functionality of the watch includes 32 city world time, electro luminescent backlight, stainless steel construction, water resistant and chronograph technology.

Prior to its acquisition by PFM, A.C. Advisory's clients included the City of New York, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, the New York City Educational Construction Fund and the Battery Park City Authority.

From the Department of Environmental Protection, documents and records being sought include studies showing whether New York City is aware that large construction projects that involve the replacement of lead service lines could lead to spikes in the presence of lead in tap water.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.

-- Espinal stands with Bushwick residents in fight against rezoning application, by POLITICO New York's Janaki Chadha: City Council Member Rafael Espinal joined Bushwick residents Thursday in opposing a private rezoning application that would allow increased residential development on manufacturing lots in the neighborhood, including the construction of two nine - story buildings.

The union cited the push by the Cuomo administration on a variety of major construction projects, including a refurbished LaGuardia Airport and JFK International Airport, spending on airports in upstate cities like Syracuse and Rochester as well as renovations at the state fairgrounds.

[31] The spending included a record $ 1.8 billion aid increase to local school districts, and $ 2.5 billion in aid for construction projects at state and city public colleges.

Several trade associations and unions associated with construction made large donations to governor's campaign committee, including $ 25,000 checks from the New York City Council of Carpenters and New York State Laborers, $ 12,500 from the Building Trades Employers Association and $ 5,000 from the Associated General Contractors.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

He'd created a string of real estate corporations (including Emerge Construction, Emerge Real Properties, LLC, and Emerge Historic Residential Community I, II and III) and planned to focus on inner city development and renovating historic buildings into «affordable» housing

The raise to $ 2,500 a year finally passed as part of a massive package of amendments promoted by Gov. Al Smith in 1927, which included measures that gave the executive significant budgetary powers and let New York City borrow to finance subway construction.

Previously, he developed a keen understanding of the state legislative process as an assistant legislative representative in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's state legislative affairs office, working on various pieces of legislation including the World Trade Center Presumption Bill, the Coordinated Construction Act, and a bill regulating the activities of street vendors in the City of New York.

Lane said the silver lining is the Destiny tax deal with the county includes a promise of 50 percent city resident employment at the hotel and 15 percent minority and women owned business hiring for construction.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to push protecting New York City from what he fears is a new pattern of violent storms, possibly including construction of levees and sea walls.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about an agreement reached this week with the Queens Development Group on Phase 1 of Willets Point; the agreement includes the construction of 1,100 affordable apartments (including 221 for low - income seniors) and a brand new 450 - seat public elementary school: «The City -LSB-...]

Borough President Katz chairs the bi-monthly meetings of the Task Force, which includes officials from the New York City Department of Transportation, the New York City Department of Design and Construction, Verizon, National Grid, Time Warner Cable, project contractor EIC Associates, Broad Channel Civic Association President Dan Mundy, Jr. and Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers President Dan Mundy, Sr., along with representatives of State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., Assemblymember Phillip Goldfeder and City Councilmember Eric Ulrich.

Construction of the Connective Corridor, which is a partnership between Syracuse University, the city and Onondaga County, included bike lanes and the development of a bus line connecting downtown with the University Hill area.

The group, called NY Jobs Now, includes Heather Bricetti, the president and CEO of the state Business Council, along with labor leaders like the AFL - CIO's Mario Cilento, UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Gary LaBarbera of Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

Mega Contracting, incidentally, has been awarded contracts for the construction and rehabbing of a number of municipal projects, including NYCHA houses, MTA station upgrades, and work on schools, police precincts and city hospitals.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio sought to expand affordable housing in a 421a tax abatement renewal, but did not include a prevailing wage component for the construction industry, though a service industry prevailing was included.

Proposed changes to a property - tax break called 421 - a — most notably a requirement that all developers include affordable housing in new projects receiving the benefit — would not stifle construction activity in New York City, according to a study released today.

At 11:30 a.m., New York City's Police Athletic League hosts its annual Real Estate and Construction Luncheon; special guests include former Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, former NYPD Commissioner Robert McGuire, Arnold Fisher and NYC Public Advocate Tish James, Four Seasons Hotel New York, 57 E. 57th St., Manhattan.

But it does include a Plastic Bottling plant as a solution to «Fill Tech City» with a New Construction that does nothing to «fill Tech City»

Jamestown's plan to expand Chelsea Market would require a change to the city's zoning of the block to include it in the Special West Chelsea District, which was created to allow the construction and renovation of the High Line.

Judith Bergtraum, 68, who joined CUNY in 2007 and is vice chancellor for facilities planning, construction and management, gets a $ 153,598 pension from her time in city government, including a stint as a deputy commissioner in the Department of Transportation.

Question topics included the estimated time for completion of all of the Sandy recovery home rebuilding, the implementation of new flood maps, whether de Blasio's reported future endorsement of Hillary Clinton is tied to a longterm need for federal government assistance, whether in Secretary Castro's view the City could do better on any element of Sandy recovery efforts, communicating an increased sense of urgency to City agencies, significant variations in the reported number of Build It Back applicants, how the City will continue its increased rate of repairs, details on the construction firms used in the program and praise for developer Gerry Romski.

Cuomo also underscored his previous announcements that proposed billions of dollars in construction programs, including an overhaul of Penn Station in Manhattan, a third rail for the Long Island Rail Road in Nassau County, a possible tunnel from Long Island to Westchester County, the Bronx or Connecticut, and a $ 26 billion capital program for New York City mass transit partly paid by the cCity mass transit partly paid by the citycity.

He is also the vice president and a part owner of SIMCO, which has gotten tens of millions of dollars in city contracts, including a $ 15 million deal with the Department of Design and Construction that was registered Aug. 22, records show.

City Hall officials have also called on Cuomo to release $ 200 million for public housing included in last year's state budget and authorize the de Blasio administration to employ «design - build,» a process of combining design and construction work, which they say would expedite repairs by at least 12 months.

2nd place went to the University of Wolverhampton In 3rd place was the Institute of Technology Carlow Other teams to reach the final included: University of Greenwich, City of Sunderland College, Mid Kent College, University of Salford, University of the West of England, Pencoed College, Leeds Met University and a team from SDC Construction Group.

Syracuse Build, a workforce development program, is designed to give city residents jobs on construction projects, including planned changes to Interstate 81.

These include a revising of the city's construction codes in 2009, creating a unit to inspect stalled construction sites, launching a campaign focused on preventing falls on construction sites and implementing more than 25 new construction safety laws.

The City Council passed both Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, which would rezone certain neighborhoods and require some new construction to include affordable housing, and Zoning for Quality and Affordability, which would raise building heights and ease parking requirements to make it easier to build senior and affordable housing.

Hartzog touted the city's «targeted, prudent investments» in the new budget, including the expansion of pre-kindergarten for more three - year - olds in the city, efforts to increase the city's affordable housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among othcity's «targeted, prudent investments» in the new budget, including the expansion of pre-kindergarten for more three - year - olds in the city, efforts to increase the city's affordable housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among othcity, efforts to increase the city's affordable housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among othcity's affordable housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among othCity Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among others.

Other bills that were introduced, but not voted on, included measures to create new penalties for those who fail to report construction fatalities, a requirement for construction companies to give the city detailed reports about scheduled construction activities months in advance, and a mandate for drug and alcohol testing of construction workers at certain job sites.

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox wCity: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox wcity and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

«[Related Companies] consistently uses contractors on its projects throughout New York City that pay prevailing wages — good wages that include health insurance and pension benefits — to members of unions affiliated with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York,» Gary LaBarbera, president of the council, said.

The borough president will also tackle de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing proposal, which would require new construction in parts of the city to include affordable housing, and his Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposal, which is meant to make building affordable senior housing easier by relaxing parking requirements and increasing building heights.

Daily News City Hall Bureau Chief Jennifer Fermino reports that Bloomberg, during his weekly radio show, jabbed Cuomo for not including mass transit as part of the new Tappan Zee Bridge, which is about to begin construction.

It was on a list of $ 16.4 million Miner requested for basic city improvements, including police cars, road construction and repairs to bursting water mains.

City Council member Jumaane Williams (Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood), chair of the Building Committee and a co-sponsor of the measure, has said the measure is still a work in progress and wanted the hearing to include testimony from all sides, including unions, non-unions, construction organizations and administrative officials in the field.

On - topic question topics included the amount of HPD funding in this specific project, possible changes in City Planning Commission rules on building height, how many of the 20,000 units reported by the Mayor were new construction and how many were preservation work, how people can seek to live in the units being constructed at this specific project and a lawsuit challenging the City's community preference policy.