Sentences with phrase «on city projects»

... The executive order would instruct the (city) Economic Development Corp. to drive a harder bargain in securing living wages on city projects until a new law is in place.»

In addition, working on city projects would allow apprentices — at least temporarily — to avoid a common obstacle, the need for a driver's license and a car to travel to construction sites.

Also contemplated are changes to the law to emphasize that city residents should get priority for apprenticeship positions on city projects.

Since taking office in January 2014, Stringer has assessed over $ 13 million dollars owed to workers on city projects and has suspended 30 contractors from doing business with the city and state due to prevailing wage violations.

The Syracuse Common Council has voted in favor of an ordinance that will require contractors working on city projects to hire 20 percent of their workforce from within the city.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Fix, an associate at private consultancy Dialog, was working on a large infill project for the City of Regina when she met the principals of a boutique firm known as H.B. Lanarc.

Other cities on this list have only recently been washed in colors, thanks to social art projects and surprising film promotions (you have the Smurfs 3D movie to thank for the striking blue city of Júzcar, Spain).

«We had built two major ops buildings on Olympic Boulevard with [Executive Life], we had a portfolio of nearly 10,000 apartment projects around the country we had acquired with them, we were overseeing 570 [general services administration] and post-office buildings with them, and we had about 800 co-ops in New York City with them,» Mark explains.

A development application has been lodged with the City of Perth for a $ 38 million, 21 - storey apartment project on Stirling Street, next to Telstra's Perth headquarters.

«I was just lying on the bed thinking and came up with all this bizarre imagery... I think also the idea that because I was in a foreign city by myself and I felt very dissociated from humanity in general, it was very easy to project myself into these two characters from the future who were out of sync, out of time, out of place.»

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown...

Extensions for the São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro metros and other metro and light rail projects in many Brazilian cities are also on the agenda — although not proceeding fast enough for many Brazilians.

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.

Ninety - three of the smart city projects are focused on transportation, according to SCMP, and could potentially use its connected infrastructure to build the number of driverless cars and shared - driving models on the road.

Entrepreneur met with Tollin in his New York City apartment to discuss the life and leadership lessons he learned following these men, and what the process of working on a quarter century - long project taught him about creativity, focus and the pursuit of one's true passion.

Local media outlets in Taiwan have reported on the Trump Organization's interest in development projects in the city of Taoyuan, whose mayor confirmed to the Taiwan News last month that Trump was considering developing luxury hotels in the area.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The director of Google's self - driving car project wrote in a blog post Monday that development of the technology has entered a new stage: trying to master driving on city streets.

The project will cover 50 islands and 34,000 square kilometers — an area bigger than Belgium — between the cities of Umluj and Al Wajh to attract «luxury travelers from around the globe,» according to an official statement sent to Bloomberg on Tuesday.

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

There's also that popular project of space tourism: While Musk envisions $ 250,000 one - way trips to Mars, Jain imagines $ 10,000 or less week - long vacations on the moon, which he says could be just as connected to the mother planet as any two cities back on Earth.

The 29 - year - old founder of Hater, a dating app that connects people based on mutual dislikes, recently took something of a risk: His company created an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin caressing a pregnant Donald Trump and projected it on buildings throughout New York City.

MEXICO CITY, April 16 - Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim sparred on Monday with the country's presidential front - runner over the Mexico City airport his companies are helping build, saying the leftist's threats to halt the $ 13 billion project would be a setback for the economy.

The five - person company has worked on dozens of projects including The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts I and II, where they helped to bring the ethereal Capitol city to life.

But an earlier 2011 New York City investigation of the incident, which included interviews with multiple Verizon officials who worked on the E-rate project, put more of the blame on the carrier and another contractor, IBM.

A: Rooted in Hope will be working on a new project focused on water and sustainable farming practices with the City of Refuge in Ghana.

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

They're focusing on San Francisco and New York City, but they're also in talks with Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project in Las Vegas.

Most oilsands projects are well north of the community, while the worst of the flames were on the city's south side.

During an interview with WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Tuesday morning where he first announced the proposal, Johnson noted the city's budget has grown from $ 86 billion in the current fiscal year to a projected $ 88 billion starting on July 1.

How the Vegas Tech Fund plans to help transform the tech scene in Sin City, in part two of our series on Tony Hsieh's $ 350 million Downtown Project.

During the day, I am often moving between meetings, about 50 percent with City government colleagues and partners working on City tech projects, and 50 percent with startups, organizations, and individuals in the tech community.

On Thursday AES Energy Storage announced that it's won two contracts with utility San Diego Gas & Electric to develop two battery projects — in the cities of Escondido and El Cajon — that will total 37.5 megawatts in capacity.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the city of San Jose is currently opposing a development project in neighboring Santa Clara on the grounds that it would bring too many jobs to the region, worsening San Jose's homes shortage.

THE recent significant slide in gold prices has claimed another victim, with AMX Resources NL placing on hold its robust Golden Cities project.

On our Sage projects, we utilize the services of other small businesses, many of which are based in Kansas City.

The estimated cost of the 330,000 square - meter Nitsba City project, modelled on Airport City, is NIS 1.8 billion.

The 39 - year - old Ms. Zhu, who runs a cosmetic center in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, is one of hundreds of Chinese investors who have bet money on an ambitious but troubled residential project in Malaysia.

As Amazon dances through courtship rituals with the 20 cities hoping to host its second headquarters, the company is also charging ahead on a slate of other real estate projects.

What makes Amazon's project unusual is its location — in the heart of a city, rather than on a sprawling suburban campus of the sort favored by most other big tech companies.

Based on its capitalization and deposit base, the bank would make loans to Massachusetts cities and towns for infrastructure projects.

The second stage of the project has focused on sharing these experiences — both amongst the various groups involved and to other groups currently facing forced evictions — through an international exchange event held in Istanbul, one of the participating cities, in February 2010.

No one quite has a number on how big the Downtown Project community is, but most people I met with estimated that approximately 300 entrepreneurs have flocked to the new city center.

The City of Burnaby actively opposed the expansion project and served notices on TM's contractors alleging violation of various Burnaby by - laws.

As early as 1986, Mayor Oscar Goodman created a redevelopment agency to focus on downtown, but it initially chased after office buildings and other projects that would not have benefited an urban, walkable core, Steve van Gorp, an urban planner who was a senior planner with the city of Las Vegas, told me.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Drawing off of survey data collected from local tech startup founders and public and private sector leaders, the annual extensive research project, now in its third year, ranks 25 American cities» readiness to capitalize on the shift to the digital economy.

Further modification to the plans, involving a daylighted creek channel and wildlife access along with the creek flow under 98th ave as part of the project would allow the project to have a positive impact on the natural environment, enhance regional biodiversity, and allow for the re-establishment of an important historical attribute of the City of Edmonton.

With rents already on the rise in most cities nationwide, Apartment List studied the top Amazon HQ2 contenders to project the impact that the new headquarters would have on local rents.

In the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the future?

The Charles E. Smith division of global real estate investment trust Vornado attempted to find answers to some of these questions through a pilot project centered on one building in the middle of Crystal City, a planned office and mixed - use neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.