Sentences with phrase «vacant buildings in the city»

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.

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Opponents of a proposed plan to build a tot lot and dog - run in historic Palmer Square urged city officials Monday to look into constructing the amenities on vacant land instead of altering the square's 19th Century character.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking a summary judgment in its case against Chicago's vacant building ordinance before the city even files a response to the lawsuit.

Albany County Land Bank Executive director Adam Zaranko: «In the City of Albany, currently we have over 60 vacant and abandoned buildings of sale and about another 70 that we recently acquired from the county through the tax foreclosure process that we're evaluating and will likely go to sale.

In advance of a deadline on Saturday, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) agreed to grant the Messier - run Kingsbridge National Ice Center another month to produce $ 138 million in funding for the first phase of the complex it plans to build at the site of the vacant armory in the BronIn advance of a deadline on Saturday, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) agreed to grant the Messier - run Kingsbridge National Ice Center another month to produce $ 138 million in funding for the first phase of the complex it plans to build at the site of the vacant armory in the Bronin funding for the first phase of the complex it plans to build at the site of the vacant armory in the Bronin the Bronx.

Dennis Conta of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association (from left), Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines and state Sen. Alberta Darling hold a press conference outside 38th Street School in Milwaukee Wednesday to announce proposed state legislation that would grant the city power to approve sales of vacant school buildings.

An audit to be officially released today by Comptroller Scott Stringer faults NYC as being too slow through various mayoral administrations in transferring city - owned vacant land to developers to build housing.

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The City of Niagara Falls, which in August posted mocking signs in front of five zombie homes owned by Citizens Bank, has filed a State Supreme Court lawsuit demanding that the bank either sell the vacant houses or repair building code violations found there.

Buffalo, N.Y. - The Erie County Industrial Development Agency today approved tax abatement packages to facilitate the rehabilitation of two City of Buffalo sites, to create 43 new apartments in currently vacant buildings.

The New York Times, building off a Mott Haven Herald story, reported in 2012 that Mr. Schlein and a couple of partners promised the city in 1995 that they would develop a 2.3 - acre parcel of vacant Bronx land.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has advocated a $ 20 million program that would put vacant apartments on the market at a discount as affordable housing, and these two buildings would be the first to take part in the program.

He reintroduced an idea that he proposed in February of this year — to use some of the land on the more than 1,100 vacant lots the city already owns to build affordable housing, creating a land bank and land trust that would partner with nonprofit affordable housing developers to build what Stringer has estimated could amount to 57,000 units of affordable housing citywide.

I recall responding to a contest in The Register Star asking children for their ideas about how to use one major vacant building or another in the city.

In a press release on April 11, Schneiderman announced that $ 20 million of funds from settlements with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would be used «to provide local governments with innovative technology to address and transform problem properties — including homes and buildings that are blighted, poorly maintained, vacant, abandoned, and in financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISIn a press release on April 11, Schneiderman announced that $ 20 million of funds from settlements with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would be used «to provide local governments with innovative technology to address and transform problem properties — including homes and buildings that are blighted, poorly maintained, vacant, abandoned, and in financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISin financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISE.

The legislation championed by Avella, currently in draft form, would empower the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development to fine owners who keep buildings empty and would create a fund to «provide capital for the rehabilitation of distressed vacant units.»

If the De Blasio administration takes away funding for construction along with access to vacant space in public school buildings, the cold hard reality is that tens of thousands of New York City students will be denied a chance for a better education.»

Theaster Gates transformed vacant and abandoned buildings in his neighborhood on Chicago's South Side by establishing a foundation, and then partnering with the city and developers to rehab a public housing complex into

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Precity's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State PreCity (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

Consequently, the vacant building faced demolition until ambitious plans were developed during the late 1980s in preparation for Glasgow's year as City of Culture 1990.

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

Following a stint in the Navy, Baltrop returned to New York in the 1970s and immersed himself in the city's decaying landscape, documenting a post-industrial wasteland of vacant manufacturing buildings that included the piers located along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan.

The former, which took place illegally on New Year's Eve in a vacant, city - owned building at 125 Delancey Street — and was shut down by the police after few hours — was restaged in Spring 2014 at four Downtown venues: James Fuentes Gallery, Cuchifritos, The Lodge Gallery, and ABC No Rio.

As a compromise, the city offered to let Colab choose another vacant building in the area, as 125 Delancey had been selected to be part of a massive renewal project that was supposed to invest the whole neighborhood.

★ «If You Build It» (through Aug. 10) In 2009, when a bad economy left commercial spaces vacant across New York City, an itinerant nonprofit art group called No Longer Empty started filling some of them with art.

The Real Estate Show was a Colab sponsored illegal occupation exhibition on the subject of landlord speculation in real estate [1] held on New Year's Eve in January 1980 in a vacant city - owned building at 123 Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

In some areas, there may not be a huge amount of buildings to source materials from, so it might not be quite as simple as in other areas, where houses, barns, sheds, and even commercial buildings are standing vacant, in part because of the country - to - city migrations that have been happening for the last few decadeIn some areas, there may not be a huge amount of buildings to source materials from, so it might not be quite as simple as in other areas, where houses, barns, sheds, and even commercial buildings are standing vacant, in part because of the country - to - city migrations that have been happening for the last few decadein other areas, where houses, barns, sheds, and even commercial buildings are standing vacant, in part because of the country - to - city migrations that have been happening for the last few decadein part because of the country - to - city migrations that have been happening for the last few decades.

Wyandotte — Hotel Sterling II, LLC plans to renovate and convert a vacant former Sears building in the City of Wyandotte, MI.

There are more than 500 vacant buildings in New York City, reports the New York Post.

Start with your city's building division; it's often in charge of making sure a vacant property is boarded and secured.

In fact, the city owns nearly 8,000 vacant lots and 3,500 empty buildings — a substantial inventory that is more concentrated on the city's northside.

In West Africa, Ghana has a relatively well - developed office market in capital city Accra, and newer office buildings are rising in areas close to the international airport where there is more vacant lanIn West Africa, Ghana has a relatively well - developed office market in capital city Accra, and newer office buildings are rising in areas close to the international airport where there is more vacant lanin capital city Accra, and newer office buildings are rising in areas close to the international airport where there is more vacant lanin areas close to the international airport where there is more vacant land.

In Youngstown, Ohio, city officials are tearing down about 4,000 vacant buildings and offering the empty lots to neighbors, who agree to maintain the properties.