Sentences with phrase «new urban development project»

The agreement covers the operation of a new hotel in the Platinan block, part of the new urban development project Älvstaden in Gothenburg.

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Sandberg announced that Facebook will join an urban mobility test project in Munich with carmakers and startups and said it will also sponsor a new university in Berlin focused on digital product development.

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

Legislating a new urban resource extraction policy, which requires mandatory consultation with urban municipalities before approving energy development projects within their boundaries, ensures licences are compatible with municipal development plans, and grants municipal governments veto power over the final licencing decision.

Key partners include: Greater Buffalo - Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT); Erie County, Niagara County, City of Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls, Association of Erie County Governments, Niagara County Supervisors Association, University at Buffalo Regional Institute and Urban Design Project (UBRI / UDP), Daemen College Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement (CSCCE), VOICE Buffalo, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Buffalo (LISC), Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA), Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, The John R. Oishei Foundation, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), Belmont Housing Resources for WNY, Inc. (Belmont), Buffalo Niagara Partnership (BNP), Empire State Development, New York State Department of State, Division of Smart Growth, Niagara County Department of Social Services, and Niagara Falls Housing Authority.

The project is moving forward with more than $ 1.3 million in resources from New York State, including $ 930,000 in Urban Community Investment Fund and $ 385,000 from Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency, through the state's Consolidated Funding ApplicaDevelopment, the state's economic development agency, through the state's Consolidated Funding Applicadevelopment agency, through the state's Consolidated Funding Application (CFA).

Richard Ravitch, who served as lieutenant governor under Gov. David Paterson and earlier chaired both the New York State Urban Development Corporation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said that these infrastructure projects aren't really priorities until there is a clear source of funding.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

On March 28, 2014, the Board of Directors for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing business as Empire State Development («ESD»), accepted the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement («the DSEIS»), adopted an amendment to the Modified General Project Plan («the Proposed Amendment»), and authorized a Public Hearing in connection with the Atlantic Yards Land Use Improvement and Civic Project.

Rep. Brian Higgins recently announced more than $ 30.3 million in federal funding, allocated through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for projects and programs in Western New York.

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn) came together on the steps of City Hall Wednesday with partners from Community Voices Heard, the Participatory Budgeting Project, and the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project and dozens of local organizations to declare the results of the groundbreaking participatory budgeting vote held last week.

In that role, Cameron was chairman of the Budget Committee with responsibility for the development and oversight of the capital city's $ 300,000,000 combined annual budgets; recruited and secured authorization of the largest urban redevelopment project east of the Mississippi River; led the development and implementation of an economic recruitment strategy that netted over $ 1 Billion in new economic investments; and moved 92 % of the city's homeless population into paths out of poverty through a collaborative effort with nearly 100 churches and homeless service providers.

A few blocks south of new lofts sprouting up around the Bluestar Arts Complex, planted along the Phase 3 section of the San Pedro Creek Improvements Project, a different kind of urban development project has made a home in the San AProject, a different kind of urban development project has made a home in the San Aproject has made a home in the San Antonio.

U.S. Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide a $ 537.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the New York State Urban Development Corporation D / B / A Empire State Development (ESD) for the construction of the Moynihan Train Hall Redevelopment Project (the Project).

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide a $ 537.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the New York State Urban Development Corporation D / B / A Empire State Development (ESD) for the construction of the Moynihan Train Hall Redevelopment Project (the Project).

The extraordinary setting combined with an exciting new development project makes this an idyllic «urban home» for the first US hotel project for Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas and its flagship urban property, as announced today by chief executive Neil Jacobs.

The project «highlights the importance of cultural communities in the creation of new urban developments,» as Tancons explains, and is an exuberant collaboration with artists, architects, and art collectives Arto Lindsay, Gia Wolff, Carlos Betancourt, Carnival Arts, Los Carpinteros, Marinella Senatore, and more.

«To this conversation Saro - Wiwa adds new insight: first relocating «the rural» from the discourse of NGOs and aid to the ambit of spiritual self - determination; and second relocating the identity development project from «the urban'to the village — what she terms «the psycho - spiritual core» of African life,» Selasi writes in the exhibition catalog.

The project has led to collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency and a major grant in 2011 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to scientists who are testing soil remediation methods in New Orleans.

She is also the former Director of Development at Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center, an organization dedicated to improving the socio and economic justice of New York City's 10,000 street vendors.

Louisiana - based Aquaponic Modular Production Systems, an urban agriculture development company, just announced the debut of a project — the first aeroponic farm in New Orleans.

Potential projects include a new urban development, an energy - efficiency policy, an electric car fleet purchase, or solar panel subsidies, to name just a few of the endless possibilities.

He has also performed extensive community service with the Tulane / Xavier National Center for the Urban Community, Project Independence, Job Corps, and dozens of other community service, non-profit, and church organizations, including the University of New Orleans Metropolitan College Department of Tourism & Economic Development, WYES - TV 12 / PBS, Friends of City Park, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Metairie Park Country Day School, New Orleans Mental Health Association, and Associated Catholic Charities.

Projects encompassed major Commercial, Residential, Industrial, and Military sites, and have involved mixed use greenfield and infrastructure development, resorts, new urban construction and complex renovations in varied locations in the USA, Europe, the Middle...

He estimates that nearly half of the new construction that occurred last year involved urban retail projects, while another dominant source of activity was the expansion of existing centers, phase twos or additional pad site development.

While this is all good news, there is a question as to whether the rapidly increasing costs for development and construction of new projects will stymie the currently sizzling U.S. urban development markets.

Speaking about urban development in front of a Columbia University audience, Roth let it slip that he let the former Alexander's site in Midtown sit vacant longer than necessary in a bid to get more concessions from New York City government for his eventual project, which became the Bloomberg Tower.

This small Ottawa neighbourhood is set to have a major impact on the city in the coming years, with new condo projects, urban transit and light rail stations, and commercial developments all planned for the area.