Sentences with phrase «of vacant lots»

There were a ton of vacant lots and I used to walk around, knock on doors and talk to people.

The properties included a doctor's office, a shopping center, several retail shops, a bank and a handful of vacant lots.

Signs hung up in front of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members of 596 Acres, an organization that maps vacant lots in New York City and advocates for community stewardship of th at land.

Signs hung up in front of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members of 596 Acres, an organization that maps vacant lots in New York City and advocates for community stewardship of th at land.

The Albany County Land Bank will receive $ 2.8 million over two years, funding the demolition of up to 20 blighted structures, the rehabilitation of a dozen properties, the initial stabilization of up to 40 homes, and the clearing of the same number of vacant lots for repurposing.

As far as vacant lot purchases, yes there are tons of vacant lots available in Detroit and the suburbs from $ 1 all the way up to millions.

The cleaning and greening of vacant lots included trash and debris removal, grading the land, planting new grass via a rapid hydroseeding method, and maintaining the lot throughout the post-intervention period.

If elected, Concepcion said he'll ensure that important projects, like the redevelopment of vacant lots at the corner of Park and Main streets and the renovation of Dillon Stadium, stay on track.

When I got down there — using the elevator hidden in a fake outhouse in the corner of a vacant lot — I immediately rinsed the dip in a strainer and discovered bits of spinach, onion and two kinds of peppers.

Eventually Poz sits down in the middle of a vacant lot and says «Here we are.»

Also at 1 p.m., state Sen. Tony Avella and residents call on the city to transfer control of a vacant lot to the parks department so that a new park can be created, 39th Avenue and 234th Street, Queens.

U.S. Congressman Adriano Espaillat took elected officials and community members on a walking tour this Sun., Mar. 18th of vacant lots where he said that the city could build 100 percent affordable housing.

Buffalo's Fruit Belt has its master plan ready to deal with the avalanche effect of the burgeoning Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus next door, masses of vacant lots available for development and the desire of most residents to stay in the neighborhood.

The NYT says a recent audit by NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer «has a point about the perplexing abundance and age of the vacant lots, a situation that predates the de Blasio administration, and the urgency of creating affordable housing wherever possible.»

The city of Syracuse, which has given $ 1.5 million in unrestricted funds in the past, is now looking at restricting some of their funding to demolitions and maintenance of vacant lots.

City housing officials say that many of the vacant lots cited in the audit have issues that make developing them difficult.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin said, «Instead of vacant lots and abandoned houses, the JOSANA neighborhood is now a place where residents can find good, affordable, and attractive homes.

Yesterday, Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stronger joined Picture the Homeless to unveil legislation calling on the city to conduct a citywide count of vacant lots and buildings — a step they say could help provide homes to the city's 60,000 homeless New Yorkers.

The magic can be dark: Poverty, prostitution, and the threat of violence are never far removed from the world of vacant lots and strip malls where Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her pack of mischief - making friends roam pretty much unsupervised.

Melissa Alvarez, 15, spent her summer imagining how to transform an eyesore of a vacant lot in her hometown of Philadelphia.

As I drove out of my neighborhood to work that morning, a cage containing a lion was sitting in the center of the vacant lot behind my house in Jocotenango, Guatemala.

In Nadia Haji Omar's Gold Mines, touches of gold leaf applied over a photograph of a vacant lot in Sri Lanka suggest traces of a former structure as well as hidden minerals coming to the surface.

Picking out the made from the found among the crates and pallets of the vacant lot is tempting but impossible.

Landscapes for the Homeless, a series of color photographs made between 1988 and 1991, details with precision and restraint the empty encampments of the homeless, sheltered beneath the concrete freeway overpasses and in the brush of vacant lots found at the edge of downtown Los Angeles.

The Plants of Vacant Lots A good read.

I call it «the woods» because that was the name we gave it, though in reality the place we used to play was more of a vacant lot with loads of trees on it, a few old tires, and empty beer cans from older kids the night before.

Natural History of Vacant Lots (California Natural History Guide No. 50)(ISBN: 0520053907 / 0 -520-05390-7) Matthew F. Vessel, Herbert H. Wong

The study, published in the journal Injury Prevention, found its results by using randomized trial design to examine the impact of vacant lot greening.

Like many cities across the country, St. Louis has thousands of vacant lots and empty buildings.

Areas like McLean, Arlington and Vienna are highly coveted because of their proximity to Washington, D.C., but a dearth of vacant lots had stifled new construction.

I own a bunch of vacant lots and a large number of rental properties in Richmond, VA..

Don Wenzel, vice president of the S Group, which converted the 2027 - 2029 W. Pierce building, said that the next step for Wicker Park would be new construction on a number of vacant lots that still remain in the area.

Raul's breaks over a shallow sloping flat rock reef and sits (for now) in front of a vacant lot.

Some of the vacant lots involved were crisscrossed by footpaths to intravenous drug «shooting galleries.»

Kolea 3E still offers a nice ocean view over one of the vacant lots.