Sentences with phrase «of large housing projects»

Two real estate developers hired the law firm to represent them in tax challenge cases in return for Silver allegedly backing the renewal of state tax incentives for developers of large housing projects that include affordable units, according to federal charges.

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As a case in point, a $ US2 billion housing construction project gets underway next month on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan's ninth - largest city.
And demand for housing is still strong, with steady stream of new projects in larger cities such as Karachi and Lahore.
Capital Impact Partners is among the largest of the roughly 1,000 CDFI's in the U.S., having invested $ 1.8 billion in senior care, affordable housing, education and public nutrition projects in distressed and low - income communities across the country.
If each co-operative housing project was part of a larger whole, their residents, and finances, would be more secure.
The largest project of its kind in the world, it established pilots in five Canadian cities (Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Moncton) in 2009 to examine outcomes of the Housing First approach.
Randy: M / b > There are some advantages to pooling money so that larger projects, that are beyond the scope of a singe house group, can be accomplished.
A large retirement housing project had been built on the edge of a relatively small city.
Unless we make our large, complex urban centers into something more than grab bags of opportunities, nothing — not enterprise zones, new housing projects or more police officers — will make them good places to live.
If one rides the downtown bus in one of our large cities through the slum areas in which children play in dirty alleys behind saloons, and then passes a housing project with clean, sunlit yards.
I gave birth to my 4th child at home in April, my best friend gave birth to her first born in my house last month, we got a dozen more chickens and hatched a few of our own this summer, we went to Story Land and to Lake Winnipesaukee on vacation, built a large wooden swingset, landscaped our backyard, and did several other home projects!
The study is a part of a larger regional research project and will be a significant guide for the village moving forward in matters of housing and development.
Based on these 3 May results, the BBC have projected that Labour would have become the largest party in the House of Commons, as set out in the graph below.
Hodge went on to criticise the DfT's handling of the competition, and raised questions about its ability to effectively manage the large scale projects coming up, emphasising the need for it to «get its house in order».
The largest purely residential development last year was in West Farms at 1932 Bryant Avenue, where the Association of New York Catholic Homes and Sav Enterprises are working on a $ 147 million 15 - story project with 319 affordable housing units.
The project would include construction of 160 housing units, a golf course and clubhouse on the largest remaining East End pine barrens tract.
The Office of the Queens Borough President provides capital funding that can be used to fund large - scale projects, including but not limited to infrastructure improvements and affordable housing developments, and to purchase smaller - scale fixed assets, like computers, Smart - Boards for schools and meal delivery vehicles.
The Office of the Queens Borough President provides capital funding that can be used to fund large - scale projects, like infrastructure improvements, equipment, smaller scale fixed assets like computers, and affordable housing development projects.
Governor Ambode, who particularly lauded the commitment of the lawmaker to the welfare of the people of his constituency and all Lagosians, said it was on record that Gbajabiamila had used his seat in the House to attract numerous projects to his constituency and Lagos at large.
He would use his mayoral powers to «encourage» more social housing and rented housing but attacked the large - scale projects of Mr Livingstone.
It offers a snapshot of the fantastic work that's going on in the industry from retail to housing to large scale public services and rejuvenation projects we have taking place.
Also set to expire, a tax break for large real estate developers who agree to set aside some of their projects for affordable housing, and mayoral control of the New York City schools.
Habitat for Humanity New York City and Almat Group Break Ground on Sydney House The 56 - unit development in Williamsbridge, Bronx will be first project financed under the City of New York's Open Door program the largest multi-family development ever built -LSB-...]
Also set to expire — a tax break for large real estate developers who agree to set aside some of their projects for affordable housing, and mayoral control of the New York City schools.
In the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, the mayor has yet to reach an agreement with Councilman Brad Lander on a large - scale project that would include some rent - regulated housing and two luxury condo towers at the site of the former Long Island College Hospital.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development filed three land - use applications in connection with the project, seeking a rezoning of the lot to allow for a larger project and to apply MIH.
The project, which includes artificial intelligence and robotics experts at the University of Lincoln's School of Computer Science, will include a large - scale evaluation where robots will be deployed within the extra-care homes of LACE Housing Association in the UK, to care homes in Greece and to elderly people's own homes in Poland, for one year.
One of the big winners was Navy basic research; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was also granted a large increase of 6.3 percent in the House bill, not quite as much as requested but still $ 181 million above FY 2017 levels.
ESTEC also houses a large pool of people with highly specialised technical knowledge, who are assigned to space projects when their expertise is needed for missions.
And finally for the last project I got a couple of long tree branches from one of my friends who cut down a very large tree at her house.
Her latest, directed in conjunction with Banksy - like street artist JR (an irrepressibly energetic and sweet presence, bounding around in his Stan Smiths), chronicles the installation of several frisky, large - scale public art projects, with tangents into Varda's own history and even a visit to Jean - Luc Godard's house.
Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.
In 2008, Broadway Housing acquired a large development site on the northern boundary of West Harlem's historic Sugar Hill District to launch its seventh project.
Both times I was just one of a large crowd of people — children, their parents, and their teachers — at the Perkins School, a tiny elementary school in the middle of a housing project in South Boston where my husband, Barney Brawer, Ed.M.»
Dr. Rodney Andrews, director of the Texas Schools Project and UT Dallas assistant professor of economics, said the study will take advantage of the large repository of individual - level, administrative records available through the UT Dallas Education Research Center (ERC), housed at the Texas Schools Project.
The electric Defender prototype is in service at the Eden Project in Cornwall, U.K., a complex of several large transparent domes that house multiple artificially maintained environments containing thousands of rare plants, and is a popular visitor attraction.
We are experienced in serving publishing houses with large volumes and we undertake eBook conversion projects of almost any size ranging from brochures, annual reports, journals, magazine to some large books.
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At a large publishing house, much of the content creation may be done in - house (through contracted projects), but that simply means that publishing houses need to be able to provide these same services to themselves.
In fact, given that indy authors tend to pay editors and proof readers, and want value for money, whereas editors in traditional houses are involved in a large number of projects, and are well - known to spend the bulk of their time in meetings rather than editing, and proofing is contracted out - often to the same proof - readers as many indies use (and some editors care how good it is, and some don't) the standards may well be higher in indy bestsellers.
The team has been pivotal in creating some of the world's best - known developments: from the groundbreaking Sydney Opera House to the unconventional Centre Pompidou in Paris and Crossrail, the largest construction project in Europe today.
For over ten years, he's had the privilege of working on hundreds of book design projects ranging with clients ranging from large - scale traditional publishing houses, to first - time independent authors.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started the trend, charging more or requiring larger down payments for homes in declining areas, for borrowers with lower credit scores, and for financing certain types of property like manufactured housing and condo projects.
Sometimes I have to spend part of it on an emergency or large house - related project that has to be done.
The main three - storey building houses a large Central department store featuring all the major brand names in the matter of clothing, home equipment, and cosmetics; countless fashion, electronics, and sportswear boutiques; a food - court plus a great choice of Thai / Japanese / western restaurants; and an SFX Cinema projecting Thai and international movies.
According to hotel.info, the leading online hotel reservations service for over 210,000 hotels around the world, the economic crisis and associated corporate pressure to reduce costs has created a clear trend for increased use of low cost online hotel reservation tools.Especially large corporations that make high numbers of bookings are currently using the present economic situation as a reason to move from planning to use online hotel reservation tools towards actually implementing such projects in - house or at least promoting the use of existing online applications to save costs.
Serbia has eight UNESCO world heritage sites, including the Decani monastery, the largest construction project of medieval Serbia, which houses perfectly preserved 14th century paintings and Gamzigrad, a late Roman fortress built in the early years of the 4th century.
While a large majority of game developers tend to outsource the use of the game engine that drives their latest project, some developers choose instead to create their own in - house engine.
As budgets continue to swell for large - scale video game projects from the likes of big publishing houses such as EA and Activision, and as the technology continues to rapidly raise the bar for new gaming experiences, creative teams are using many more resources to try and make their games bigger,...
Working with Rhoades to realize large - scale installation projects like The Plexiglas House (2006), Dodd began integrating performance and architectural interventions to create holistic environments that generated their own narratives and pointed back to the performative quality of the artist studio as well as the everyday.
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