Sentences with phrase «tract of land from»

In 1691, a group of Dutch traders purchased a tract of land from the Wappingers that spanned from the Hudson River to the Connecticut border.

It also had to coordinate the assignment of leases related to more than 50 tracts of land from local landowners as security for the project's financial backers.

Not exact matches

To get from his home to the factory that he owns on the other side of town, Zak Pashak, the owner and president of Detroit Bikes, takes Joy Road, a notorious Detroit artery whose name belies the mirthless array of derelict houses, boarded - up storefronts and vast, empty tracts of overgrown land that line it.

Now the Chinese government is seeking to gain control of large tracts of land especially in Africa from which it can supply the additional food Chinese will need.

A timeline describes the declension from the biblicism of Martin Luther and John Calvin to the thought of Descartes, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Darwin and Charles Hodge (he may be an archconservative to most Presbyterians, but his acceptance of Darwinism lands him in the hall of shame here) to a certain Charles Templeton, who once traveled with Billy Graham but unfortunately accepted evolution and ended up writing the atheist tract Farewell to God.

They will rotate tracts of land with crops and other animals, or let it go fallow from time to time.

That's what the government has called vast tracts of land outside our towns and cities that it has wanted to protect from development - as if they were full of birds, bugs and gentle hedgerows.

TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. >> Once the place where garbage collected from around the town of Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needOF ULSTER, N.Y. >> Once the place where garbage collected from around the town of Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof Ulster was dumped, a 29 - acre tract of land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof land alongside Frank Sottile Boulevard will soon be home of a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof a vast solar energy array able to provide 20 percent or more of Ulster County government's electrical needof Ulster County government's electrical needs.

They say that included a $ 35,000 payment from Cor Development to secure the governor's help redeveloping a state - owned tract of land in Syracuse known as the Inner Harbor, and a $ 90,000 - a-year «low - show» job for Percoco's wife from Kelly, a former executive at Competitive Power Ventures, to clear hurdles with the state to build power plants.

The Adirondack Park Agency will meet later this week to vote on the classification of the Boreas Ponds land tract purchased by the state from the Nature Conservancy in April 2016 for $ 14.5 million.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Executives from Cor Development Co. hired lobbyist Todd Howe in November 2010 to help pursue development of two tracts of state land in Syracuse - Kennedy Square and the Inner Harbor - both of which were subsequently awarded to Cor.

Today, Sheldrake, Purce, and their 10 - and 12 - year - old sons live in a comfortable town house across the street from Hampstead Heath, the largest tract of wild land in London.

He obtains permission from landowners beforehand — Welch says he's found most landowners are curious about their properties» past but lack the time or manpower to explore often huge tracts of land.

And if the state of the «global environment» were of significant concern, then we'd be asking ourselves how to get ruminants back onto the vast tracts of land that we've removed them from — land that has been pillaged by plows and chemicals.

It dates its history to December 20, 1625, when Roelof van Echten bought a large tract of peat land from farmers of the district with the plan to harvest its peat.

The inherited property comprises a ramshackle house and a vast tract of land on which nothing has ever been grown — the function of the land, for the grandfather, was simply to protect the business from prying eyes.

Texas is almost its own country, very large and diverse, and Texans mortgage every kind of property imaginable, from ranch homes on big tracts of land to high - rise condos in busy cities.

In 1979, with help from the Dia Art Foundation, Judd purchased a 340 acre (1.4 km ²) tract of desert land near Marfa, Texas [11] which included the abandoned buildings of the former U.S. Army Fort D. A. Russell.

To borrow outrageously from a famous story, «The Most Dangerous Game,» here's a Modest Proposal: Establish a six - month open season each year in which anti - wolf / anti-environmental politicians and ranchers (hereinafter referred to as «game») would be turned loose in a yet - to - be-determined tract of public land with just their seasonally - correct clothing, a knife, a first aid kit and one packet of military rations.

Don't recall the specific publication as it was a waiting room find, but the gist of the article was to suggest a means of preventing owners of forest tracts from selling their land to housing developers.

The garden is watered via a swale (a low tract of land that has been designed to manage the flow of water) which is fed by the grey - water from the house.

Offsets from this project come from a tract of land that was purchased and added to the City of Arcata's community forest in 2003.

(Sec. 383) Allows a lessee to withhold from payment any royalty due and owing to the United States under any leases under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for offshore oil or gas production from a covered lease tract if, on or before the date that the payment is due and payable to the United States, the lessee makes a payment to the state of 44 cents for every $ 1 of royalty withheld.

City government and the Department of Environmental Protection are now soliciting proposals from private energy companies to develop alternative energy facilities on several tracts of public land, with the Fresh Kills area at the forefront.

Since large tracts of sunny, unused land are pretty hard to come by, large - scale solar developers occasionally face opposition from stakeholders who ascribe other value to land that could otherwise be developed for solar.

Of course, he got is corn education from working the land for decades instead of reading political tracts and garbage from people that never spent one day turning soil for the next croOf course, he got is corn education from working the land for decades instead of reading political tracts and garbage from people that never spent one day turning soil for the next croof reading political tracts and garbage from people that never spent one day turning soil for the next crop.

As a vigorous outdoorsman, Roosevelt was a proud, vocal champion of the first phase of U.S. environmentalism: conservation, aimed at protecting tracts of wild land from industrialization.

Tracts of land planted with commercial seeds are pushing out local crop varieties and erasing the knowledge gained from 10,000 years of farming.

It can be argued that soybean is not the most efficient feedstock for biodiesel because it occupies large tracts of land, incurs considerable carbon debt (even without considering ILUC), and has a low annual rate of saved carbon from replacing fossil diesel.

The wide variety of acts that could be evidence of an intention to occupy land is emphasised, varying from obvious practices such as «enclosing, cultivating, mining, building upon, maintaining, and warning trespassers of land» to acts such as «cutting trees and grass, fishing in tracts of water, and even perambulation» (para 39).

The 1997 Delgamuukw decision evoked visions of vast tracts of hunting territory, «exclusively used and occupied» by a First Nation (essentially, being under the sovereign power of a First Nation), that were declared to be, in the present day, lands from which the First Nation was entitled to exclude all others, even the Crown.

Riklan Resources understands each aspect of the career tract, from transition planning to landing that job after a period of unemployment.

Confidence to outline subdivision concepts ranging from parceling a larger tract of land into smaller acreage to the full - scale development of a mixed - use subdivision

Knowledge to outline subdivision concepts ranging from parceling a larger tract of land into smaller acreage to the full - scale development of a mixed - use subdivision.

In 1834, Russell family settlers from England fell in love with a tract of land in central Alabama.

Virginia Vacant land portion of Metro West, Fairfax (9.82509 acres zoned Planned Residential Mixed - Use) Springfield Town Center, Fairfax (49 acres zoned for office, retail, hotel, and multifamily) Woodland Park, Herndon (112 acres zoned for multiple office development) Leegate, LLC Property, Leesburg (126 - acre vacant land tract, Route 7 and Battlefield Parkway) Moorefield Station, Loudoun County (20.3944 - acre public use site part of 81.6 - acre proffered public use site) Loudoun Center, Loudoun County (669 acres zoned for multiple office development) Cleveland Site, McLean (10.29 - acre trace for Route 123 and the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project) Reston (7,400 acres zoned for planned unit development) Stafford County (market study for various property types from January 1, 2006 to January 1, 2010, including the appropriate range of land values for single - family [large acreage parcels], multifamily, retail, office, and industrial properties Tysons Square Center, Vienna (14.19054 - acre tract)

Tracts of land range from small lots to hundreds of acres with potential for farmland, timber or agriculture.

Helen Thompson, Esri's director of commercial marketing, notes that the software can incorporate the video and tracking efforts from drones into interactive 3 - D geographic data to help appraisers and other real estate professionals update maps of large tracts of land more frequently.

From a developer's perspective, the law makes the assemblage of large tracts of land more difficult but not impossible.

Production homes, also known as tract homes, are constructed by builders who typically own a larger amount of land, which is then divided into lots to be packaged with a home from the builder's portfolio.