Sentences with phrase «of city dollars»

Property taxes provide about 37 percent of city dollars.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As Christine Quinn's 14 years in the City Council come to a close, some community groups are expressing concern that they are losing a sympathetic leader who steered millions of city dollars into their coffers.

He reports the charges are a result of Monserrate funneling hundreds of thousands of city dollars to a not - for - profit in Queens called LIBRE, or Latino Initiative for Better Resources & Empowerment.

Currently, 38 cents of every city dollar goes toward debt repayment, legacy costs and other obligations.

Not exact matches

Plans are in motion for a $ 350 to $ 400 million redevelopment of Booragoon's Garden City shopping centre, after a complex multi-million dollar ownership swap between Westfield and AMP Capital.

But because many of these multinationals do most of their business outside of Portland, the actual dollar amount deducted for the tax would be miniscule: the city estimates it will generate about $ 2.5 to $ 3.5 million per year from this initiative.

Making sustainability a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost - effective design solution that could save millions, and even billions, of dollars, according to a new study.

«We don't see the kind of matching dollars that other cities across Canada and internationally receive,» says Robertson.

It's not much of a stretch to say Winnebago is Forest City: In town you'll find tiny Waldorf College and a business district that has thinned down to a quilt store, gas stations, a Dollar General, a Subway outlet, and not much more.

The Hong Kong dollar's peg to the U.S. dollar is part of what contributes to the stability of the city, says Tara Joseph of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.

After a few days traipsing through New York City, I ended up with eight purely free items and four discounted purchases, and spent about 15 of my own dollars.

Indiegogo has expanded into the triple digits of employee headcount, now has a New York City office and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for more than 275,000 people in more than 200 countries.

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.

On July 3, the new museum at St. Louis» iconic Gateway Arch will open, the culmination of a multi-million dollar campaign to unify the city and update one of the nation's most recognizable man - made landmarks.

The city does have a high volume of $ 5 million - dollar listings, however — 77, according to the collected data.

The question under consideration at that vote was whether he should return a few thousand dollars» worth of donations that the city's integrity commissioner says were improperly gathered.

Five out of the top 10 cities with the most million - dollar homes are in California.

Before getting into the criticism of Trump's impact on veterans, Meyers gave the president «serious credit» for donating over a million dollars to building a Vietnam Memorial in New York City, which was completed in 1985.

Jerrit Tan, CEO of New York City - based Canopy, believes more entrepreneurs should take advantage of the billions of dollars in business grants offered by government agencies, which can buy a startup valuable R&D time and boost credibility.

Union officials also argue that the city is owed hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes that should be collected before retirees are asked to take a cut in benefits.

China's richest man, on a buying spree in Hollywood, urged U.S. filmmakers to work more closely with the Asian country as he unveiled a subsidy meant to lure productions to his multi-billion dollar studio in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.

Both metropolitan areas have said, for example, that short term rentals procured through Airbnb and VRBO are essentially against the law, as they cheat cities out of millions of dollars of tax revenues, but also because they aren't regulated the way hotels are, and could be fire traps or have other safety considerations about which hapless customers are not likely to be aware.

The 2012 Inner City 100 is packed full of innovative businesses such as Intelect (# 96) that are not only energizing their communities by generating dollars and jobs, but are growing at outstanding rates.

Still, one drawback may be the city's endemic financial woes; the state of Illinois is now grappling with $ 15 billion in unpaid bills, and as much as a quarter - trillion dollars is owed to public employees when they retire.

That wasn't enough reassurance for organizations such as the Disciples of Christ, a Protestant group that brings in millions of dollars to Indianapolis through its conferences, which said it plans to boycott the city this year.

Bryant Simon, a professor at Temple University, whose book Boardwalk of Dreams chronicles the history of Atlantic City, including Trump's business dealings there, says business owners who worked on the Taj Mahal were often paid just 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar in the bankruptcy.

Much of the middle - class and scores of businesses also have fled the city, taking their tax dollars with them.

Ken Odeluga, a market analyst at City Index, told BI: «The key for the moment seems to be more about gold's role as a counterweight to the dollar and, more precisely, as the inverse of the Federal Reserve's willingness to create more ideal dollar conditions by tightening policy.»

Orr was unable to persuade a host of creditors, unions and pension boards to take pennies on the dollar to help facilitate the city's massive financial restructuring.

One of Defy's biggest success stories is Coss Marte, a convicted drug kingpin who at one time made $ 2 million dollars a year running one of the New York City's largest drug rings.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

Some states are offering Amazon financial incentives valued in the billions of dollars, including $ 7 billion from New Jersey for its finalist city Newark.

Among other signs of its resurgence, Crescent City has undergone a building boom — with luxury hotels and a billion - dollar state - of - the - art health center, and more sporadic rebuilding efforts in the Lower Ninth Ward.

Stateside, the Coyotes eke out a precarious existence via taxpayer dollars from host city Glendale; other American teams are losing millions of dollars a year.

Data from CB Insights found that Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai and Bangalore were among the top six cities in the world in terms of growth in venture - capital deals and dollars in 2014.

I have no problem hiring a property inspector from a different city, but don't want to waste hundreds of dollars if the agent is steering us towards crap property after crap property.

In recognition of the immense need in Dickinson, and in honor of my mother's significant contribution to this community, my wife, Amy, and I have decided to donate one million dollars to the city's Harvey Relief Fund.

In just under six months, New York City - based Thrive has signed deals worth «multiple millions of dollars.»

But two of the city's hottest technology start - ups, Twitter and Zynga, are threatening to leave San Francisco unless they get a break from a city payroll tax that could, given the estimated multibillion - dollar valuations of the two companies, amount to tens of millions of dollars.

If a city or state shells out millions of dollars to attract Amazon, the least it can do is ensure that the resulting jobs lift people out of poverty.

Uber, which has collected billions of dollars in venture capital and is in talks to raise more money at a $ 50 billion valuation, is now operating in more than 300 cities across six continents.

Throughout the city we found the average to hover only a few dollars in either direction of the $ 241 for our sample renter.

Uber admitted that it underpaid New York City drivers by tens of millions of dollars, with the blame being cast on an accounting error.

Kidney elaborates: «If India built a new sustainable and climate - resilient city out of Hyderabad it's going to a cost a billion dollars or maybe 5 billion dollars.

«Every dollar put into helping more people in Miami participate in our city's economic opportunities is an investment in our future and these funds will go to community organizations that are helping families and small business owners get ahead and build a path to prosperity,» Guillermo Castillo, market leader and head of commercial banking for Chase in South Florida, said in a statement.

Just as he slammed down on them in his work in Chicago when he gentrified the city's black neighborhood, making billions of dollars in real estate gains for the Pritzker and Crown families.

«That being said, Mr. Trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes, along with very substantial charitable contributions.»»

Even though billions of dollars are at stake, few states and cities have fully disclosed their bids.

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

By subsidizing high - paying jobs — often to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars per job — cities and states end up cancelling out whatever economic benefit these jobs bring.