Sentences with phrase «says vacant buildings»

He says vacant buildings can de-value a neighborhood and the Land Bank could help change that.

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Infosys President Ravi Kumar said the Bangalore, India - based company will start the $ 245 million, 141 - acre campus project by building a $ 35 million training center at the now - vacant site of the former Indianapolis International Airport terminal.

The population exodus that Detroit has suffered means a lot of office space was left vacant, and empty buildings are being rehabilitated into working space, says Finney.

The blocklong Discount Mega Mall at 2500 - 14 N. Milwaukee Ave. has sat vacant since June, when it was shut down for 112 building, health and safety code violations, including a crumbling exterior facade and inoperable plumbing that led to raw sewage accumulating in the building, planning officials said.

On one hand, Valentine said he wouldn't want the Five Seasons building to become vacant and it would be nice to reuse the facility in some way.

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.

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.

Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal RuthAnne Visnauskas said, «Stadium Estates Phase II will continue to reinvigorate the JOSANA neighborhood in downtown Rochester by replacing vacant lots with quality affordable apartments in attractive buildings.

Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner Howard Zemsky said, «The Better Buffalo Fund was created to support vibrant, mixed - use communities like the Niagara Gateway Apartments, which brings a vacant building back to life to provide affordable housing on Buffalo's West Side.»

«Being able to support this organization and keep it running has a real financial benefit to the city, not to mention quality of life benefits for the people who live on a street next to a vacant building,» Wright said.

«While we have made progress fighting blight, there is much more work to be done, and this software will provide much needed support as we continue our efforts to bring vacant buildings back into productive use,» she said in a statement.

Onondaga County officials said the planned dredging operation will help spur continued economic development of the harbor, a once - vacant tract where hotels, apartments and office buildings are being built.

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Rose Harvey said, «Thanks to improvements that Governor Cuomo made to the state historic preservation tax credits, we are seeing the re-use of more vacant and underutilized buildings be part of an overall strategy to improve the character of neighborhoods and create much - needed affordable housing.

He wants a moratorium on building public and subsidized housing because he said public housing is the cause of an abundance of vacant buildings in the city.

«The redevelopment of the iconic Sibley Building will transform this once nearly vacant building in Rochester into a multi-use dynamic destination that will attract residents and investment,» said Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner HowardBuilding will transform this once nearly vacant building in Rochester into a multi-use dynamic destination that will attract residents and investment,» said Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner Howardbuilding in Rochester into a multi-use dynamic destination that will attract residents and investment,» said Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner Howard Zemsky.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino said the deal to build a major bioscience and technology center on vacant land next to the Westchester Medical Center in Mount Pleasant is one of the largest the county has ever done.

The agency regards the renovation of the 10 - story building, which has been vacant for 20 years, as an important project, spokesman Jason Conwall said.

Meanwhile, when asked whether the state is still committed to financing $ 138 million for this project, a spokesman for the Empire State Development would only say, «ESD remains committed to supporting the Kingsbridge National Ice Center, which will create 400 jobs and return a long - vacant building to use.»

While new growth is happening across the city, Sheehan said her focus will be on vacant buildings.

The South Buffalo Democrat says while the former courthouse is vacant, the GSA is wasting money locally leasing space in private buildings for U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the U.S. Trustees, the Federal Defender and U.S. Tax Court.

Commissioner / CEO Towns said «Roosevelt Hillside Apartments will provide more affordable family housing, redevelop two vacant, historic buildings, and breathe new life into an important Syracuse neighborhood.

The prolific Brooklyn developer is planning a commercial building on the vacant site at 500 Kent Avenue, which offers 230,000 buildable square feet as - of - right, a spokesperson for Rabsky said.

James S. Rubin, Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal said, «The Northside and Southside communities now have new homes and a new space for businesses where before there had been vacant lots or deteriorating buildings.

«When he talked about nanotechnology and how the state was a leader, he mentioned Albany, Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse and no mention of Utica what - so - ever and we have a vacant building there,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente.

County officials say a planned $ 3.4 million renovation will revive the vacant, 108 - year old building and save the county more than $ 600,000 a year in rent paid to private landlords.

He said tax incentives instead should be given to Albany residents to renovate vacant buildings.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan, who cited the issue of vacant and abandoned buildings during her campaign, says it became apparent that other questionable structures scattered throughout the city had to be dealt with immediately.

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.

Vito Sciscioli, the land bank's volunteer chairman, said the organization needs to build up cash reserves to cover the cost of stabilizing and maintaining hundreds of additional properties, many of which are vacant and blighted.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal said the intention is to go after commercial operators who rent large numbers of vacant units in multi-apartment buildings.

He also said the restaurant plans to meet with residents of the apartment building above to discuss noise issues — City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's office claims to have collected more than 400 complaints over the past few years — and it is working with the building's landlord on a compromise regarding a vacant ground - floor apartment Gino Hernandez had used illegally.

«That building has been siting vacant for 15 years, and a lot of people are just relieved someone has an idea to clean it up,» Herrick said.

Monica Kurzejeski, the city's economic development coordinator and the acting land bank executive director, said there are also 88 vacant buildings owned by the city that could be acquired.

The first foreclosures - a mix of residential housing, vacant lots and possibly some commercial buildings — are likely to come in August, Wright said.

Tax breaks from IDAs have resulted in dozens of businesses moving into vacant buildings in Hamburg, Walters says.

Ricci said many buildings remain vacant because the property is tied up in an estate or the landlord might think that using the property would not be profitable.

McLaughlin said Sheehan's plans to build a new courthouse concerned her, but liked the vacant building initiative.

That approach, which focuses the densest development in the vacant Terminal A and B buildings next to the former Freezer Queen facility, is a vision «built from decades of community input,» said Jill Jedlicka, the nonprofit group's executive director.

Among other critiques, Grant accused the mayor of funding the Tesla Solar City project — to the tune of nearly $ 1 billion — when, she said, that building has been vacant for over two years.

Cleaning and greening vacant lots might be just enough of a change, Kaplan says, to help build a sense of ownership and neighborhood identity in the affected communities so they can come together and push for larger improvements like better schools and sanitation — and remain in the neighborhood to enjoy them.

A couple places she has in mind are the vacant Comp USA store or the Jensen - Byrd building on the Riverpoint campus, she said.

For those looking to build, Gerhardt says there are several 120 - by -400-ft vacant lots available for construction right on Georgian Bay, selling for just $ 175,000 each.

San Jose voters will get the final say on whether to allow developers to build housing on a vacant parcel of land in the Evergreen foothills.

Popularly known for large - scale projects that transform vacant buildings into work of art, Gates has said that he is motivated by a desire to «reenvision place... not just as an art project, but as a way of living.»

«We were concerned that the community housing project we are working on in Liverpool would suddenly be seen as «art»,» says Lewis Jones, momentarily downing tools on the building site in Toxteth where the group is busy transforming a street of long - vacant terraced houses into affordable homes for a community land trust.

Asked how the economy is doing in Kings County, Lehn says it is the best in a while pointing to low unemployment and the fact that companies have now acquired and plan to open two large vacant buildings totaling about 2.6 million square feet.

«In terms of Hanford, there seems to be a theme of leaving vacant lots for decades, or abandoned unused buildings for decades and we need to start addressing some of those things,» Councilman Justin Mendes said.

In fact, in late 2003 Divco West partnered with real estate investment advisor RREEF to acquire Market Center in San Francisco for about $ 104 per sq. ft.. At the time, the two - building, 770,000 sq. ft. property was about 80 % vacant; today it's 60 % occupied, Shiff says.

«The bottom line is that you can buy something for one - third of the cost that it would take to buy the vacant land and build something on it,» says Crescent Height's Galbut.

In 1994 when the military moved out, this area was surrounded by barbed wire and filled with 1,000 vacant, mostly dilapidated buildings, says Hilarie Portell, director of public relations and marketing for the Lowry Redevelopment Authority, which supervised redevelopment.