Sentences with phrase «open space project»

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George's favorite projects include creating MIT's first ever reality web series, revealing the secret behind white asparagus, explaining why ketchup is so hard to get out of the bottle, helping develop a massive open online course on protein drug development, and giving a friendly satellite - fixing space robot his television debut.

The projects will also result in habitat and recreation improvements, such as fishing piers, trails, and open space preservation.

In addition, office space design may present an obstacle, with millennial employees preferring open designs with collaborative spaces, and gen Zers favoring traditional office spaces with private offices for solo projects.

While formal analysis opened up a space for the academic study of religion and art, the project soon sought and found more congenial theoretical underpinnings in hermeneutics.

«It is quite unusual in the way that it is designed - nobody has a fixed desk here, there are no offices, it's open space, and it has many different workspaces and work areas, there are project rooms, there are creative circles, an auditorium, meeting rooms, sitting areas, laboratory space - a mixture of different elements that allow us to work in different ways.»

The fun: On any given Tuesday and Friday — when the museum is open until 9 p.m. - the MCA hosts live performances, curator talks, workshops, screenings, concerts, and other artist projects in its brand new Commons space.

Park or recreation unit construction project means the acquisition, development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvements, architectural planning, and installation of capital facilities consisting, but not limited to, buildings, structures, and land for park and recreation purposes and open spaces and natural areas.

«Adding over 4 acres of parkland in Logan Square is a huge open - space accomplishment,» said Beth White, the trust's project manager.

The Open Space, Park and Recreation Investment (OSPRI) plan has funded dozens of park projects — some of them new construction, others as renovations.

Opponents of a plan to build a senior center in a park on Chicago's North Side said they are worried about losing open green space, but they also see the threat as the latest proposed development projects swallowing up parks throughout the city.

It would be the first project in the Deer Park triangle — 232 acres of farmland and open space bordered by U.S. Highway 12 and Long Grove, Lake Cook and Quentin Roads that the village has earmarked for retail, commercial and residential development.

Opponents of a plan to build a senior center in a park on Chicago's North Side said they are worried about losing open green space, but they also see the threat as the latest in a string of development projects swallowing up parks throughout the city.

Under the agreement, the Forest Preserve has purchased much of the property for the project, the city has agreed to demolish structures to create the open space, and the Park District has promised to maintain the trails.

Recipient Merits — For the FPDCC's innovative partnership with the city of Chicago and the Chicago Park District to create CitySpace — a visionary project dedicated to developing a comprehensive plan for creating and preserving open space in Chicago.

Projects include public open space Master Planning and Design for the Hudson River Park, NY, NY, Charles River Basin for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (MDC), the F&G Streets Retail District, Washington, DC.

The trail won its first formal blessing in 2004 when the city and the Chicago Park District listed the project in its Logan Square Open Space Plan.

The Illinois Department of Conservation approved nearly $ 10.4 million in grants Thursday for 71 open - space and recreational projects throughout Illinois, including 38 in Chicago and suburban forest preserve and park districts.

The project was paid for by a $ 325,400 Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and about $ 60,000 from the Geneva Park District Foundation, Wicks said.

«Gary and I must have overseen eight projects together between the village and the Park District, like improving Lake Ellyn's water quality, the Wingate Basin sewer - improvements project, and buying the former Maryknoll Seminary for open space.»

The cost of the $ 5.4 million project is partly offset by a $ 400,000 Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant and $ 255,693 from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation.

The projects will be funded by the state Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grants and the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants.

The deputy prime minister told MPs that abandoning Lords reforms has opened up space in the parliamentary programme for bills to provide # 40bn to guarantee infrastructure projects and # 10bn for new house building.

The city has been doing outreach over assorted waterfront projects over the past year, and created a forum on their website with a map tool for the public to find publicly - accessible open space along the waterfront.

«With this initial round of funding, we are investing in high - quality, locally led projects that will enhance open space, green neighborhoods, foster education and stewardship, and address other environmental improvement priorities of the community,» said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office is overseeing the fund, in a statement.

The acquisition is among the types of projects outlined in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's 2016 Open Space Conservation Plan, officials said.

Project partners were the Open University, University of Leicester and EADS Astrium UK (now Airbus Defence and Space) supported by funds from ESA, the Office of Science and Technology of the Department of Trade and Industry, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Wellcome Trust, the National Space Centre and the Millennium Commission.

The project, dubbed Alexander Landing, was submitted to the Empire State Development Corporation and would also include a charter school, a medical facility, retail, parking and open space, according to Crain's.

Martins and Curran each pledged to pursue offshore wind projects, to create charging stations at county buildings for electric vehicles and to protect open space and parkland.

That makes it easier for COR Development to proceed with its $ 342 million project, which includes a 134 - room Aloft Hotel that is scheduled to open May 31 and construction of two mixed - use buildings with apartments and retail space.

«The proposed pipeline threatens important resources of regional and statewide concern including... state regulated wetlands, the Ramapo River Watershed, the Karst Aquifer Region (which is) a priority project designated in the NYS Open Space Conservation Plan,» Rosendale officials wrote.

That the array is on a former landfill, rather than prime farmland or other usable open space, sets the Ulster County project apart from others, Hein said.

The highly unusual case exposes tensions over how Amherst should control development in the town's valuable open space, particularly when a project is eyed for a site near homes or where rezoning is needed.

«Using the REA Wing opens up some new space and some exciting possibilities so that we can grow the Public Market and make this a multi-season project.

Stringer said his approval of the project — a $ 15 billion redevelopment stretching from 30th to 33rd streets and 10th to 12th avenues — is conditional on the developer's promise to meet LEED silver standards, consult with the community to mitigate the effect of construction on noise and traffic and create public open space at the site.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is raising serious concerns over a proposal by the New York City Housing Authority to develop open green spaces between existing buildings at city housing projects.

The City launched a $ 20 million project in 2007 to transform the brownfield into a community open space for the public, unveiling it in 2011.

This afternoon, elected officials and three Manhattan community boards are out with a letter they have sent to Mayor Bloomberg and NYCHA Chairman John Rhea concerning a proposal to build luxury housing on parking lots and other open space surrounding public housing projects.

«Although the applicant testified that this project would only be a hotel, the applicant had no commitments from hotel operators to open in the space, spurring the community's doubts,» Greenfield said.

More than 700 residents signed a petition against the project to protest the loss of open space.

The bill also includes a slight bump for conservation easements and open space protection projects; ongoing funds for the Lake Champlain Basin Program and reauthorization for a federal law that provides clean - up funds for contaminated industrial properties — including a site in Plattsburgh.

Advocacy group Friends of 20th Street Park point to the unsuccessful condominium projects in West Chelsea along the High Line as potential targets for affordable housing, rather than existing open space.

He opened the workshop by outlining a number of diplomatic hurdles encountered, for example, when trying to arrange a multi-partner climate research project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and universities in the U.S., South Africa, and Namibia.

The loss of a research partner or supervisor might leave an empty space, but it can also open doors for new collaborations and bring in fresh points of view to a research project.

«Achieving compositional and structural control for functional materials, in this case for optical components and microfluidics, promises to tremendously open up the application space for 3D - printing technologies,» said Eric Duoss, a materials engineer working on the project.

To handle the vast amount of data generated by the observatories, BL intends to innovate powerful open source software that will enable members of the general public to make a material contribution to the project by creating their own search tools, and donating unused CPU space to boost the projects computing prowess.

The Space Warps project is open source.

The Sundance Institute Theatre Program works in «the space in - between» an artist's idea and a project's production as well as opening up new spaces of aesthetic, cultural and geographic exploration

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Small rooms can be opened up to allow for group projects, and the circulation desk as well as the sides of the stacks are writeable with dry - erase markers to encourage the collaboration and sharing that the previous space had discouraged.

In the heart of the school along Vermont Avenue's sidewalk, a double - height space will serve as the seniors» open studio and an amphitheater for their capstone project presentations.