Sentences with phrase «invest city dollars»

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Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

In a press release announcing HQ2, Amazon said it «estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $ 38 billion to the city's economy — every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional 1.4 dollars for the city's economy overall.»

Recently, Diego has raised several millions of dollars from Latin America investing in real estate development currently all focused in Jersey City.

«It took nine months between our attorney and the city attorney to put together a public - private agreement that allowed us to invest close to half - a-million dollars to construct and bring online two wells,» Norgrove explains.

In reality we need to invest a billion dollars to compete with the likes of Chelsea, City, and Utd.

The CSS bought the building in 2007 and has invested thousands of dollars into renovating the former nursing home, according to city records.

City and state teachers unions have been funneling millions of dollars into a grassroots protest group that has been targeting EpiPen manufacturer Mylan — even though their pension funds are heavily invested in the drug maker.

So that's terrific, and the state comptroller should do that, just as New York City has announced it will do, but you can't say that as governor you want to divest in fossil fuels and then give tens of millions of dollars to the New York Power Authority to invest in fracked gas in downtown Albany.

City and state teachers unions have been funneling millions of dollars into a grassroots protest group that has been targeting EpiPen manufacturer Mylan — even though their pension funds are heavily invested in the drugmaker, The Post has learned.

She added the DOT, Amtrak and CSX recently reached an agreement to invest close to 500 - million dollars on the Hudson line, between New York City and Schenectady.

$ 1.2 million for a UV disinfectant project - a requirement for water treatment that allows the city to avoid investing in a multi-million dollar filtration plant.

Katz also suggested the other candidates in the comptroller race look at the task of investing the city's multibillion - dollar pension fund in a manner that is cut - and - dry.

Niagara Falls Councilman and former Niagara Gazette publisher Chris Voccio told WBFO despite the millions of dollars the Cuomo Administration has invested in downtown Niagara Falls, Cuomo isn't necessarily well - received in the Cataract City.

The city's School Construction Authority stashed $ 104 million in a low - interest checking account for two years — losing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars by not investing the money elsewhere, as required by law, according to an audit released Thursday.

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the MasterCard expansion as well, saying the company also is investing several million dollars to establish a new mobile e-commerce technology lab in New York City, which will lead to 122 new research and development and software jobs in Manhattan.

Stellar results posted by high - performing charters are dismissed, while New York City mayor Bill de Blasio invests hundreds of millions of dollars in his signature «renewal schools» model largely without success.

DeVos has invested millions of dollars in the school choice cause and in inner - city charter school initiatives.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

Additionally, a revealing new study conducted by Patrick Wolf, Corey De Angeles, et al shows that in eight big American cities, each dollar invested in a child's k - 12 schooling results in $ 6.44 in lifetime earnings in public charter schools compared to just $ 4.67 in lifetime earnings in TPS.

Investing precious city taxpayer dollars in our schools will not get the job done alone.

By 1991 investors who purchased City Investing Liquidating Trust at inception had received several liquidating distributions with a combined value of approximately nine dollars per unit, or three times the September 1985 market price, with much of the value received in the early years of the liquidation process.

When you put this bill together with the Health Department's recent announcement to invest millions of dollars to optimize Animal Care & Control, as well as the Council's passage in January of a law to stop the country's worst puppy mills from supplying city pet stores, you can clearly see a city striving to rise above — and lead — when it comes to animal compassion and welfare.

In addition, the property invested significant dollars into the Internet infrastructure, now offering the most bandwidth and fastest connectivity in the city.

The Alliance to Save Energy was pleased to give them an award in 2003 for — since 1982, the city and Austin Energy have been investing 15 million dollars a year in energy efficiency, and what have they gotten for that commitment and that investment?

That's because, after the 1998 deregulation, the company invested hundreds of millions of dollars in operations and capacity uprates at Clinton and Quad Cities and greatly improved both plants» performance and reliability.

The city of Salinas had invested more than half a million dollars in Green Vehicles, an electric car start - up company.

Facebook tells me it's investing tens of millions of dollars into the program that will travel to 30 cities around the U.S. in 2018.

If you look around enough, there are city and community colleges that offer evening classes that are worth invest $ 25 to $ 70 dollars.

Cities from coast to coast have invested millions of dollars to make their downtowns a more attractive place to live.