Sentences with phrase «vacant buildings on»

Under the Creedmoor plan, several now - vacant buildings on the 315 - acre campus in Queens Village would have been converted into housing for the homeless.

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With the next - largest footprint is the uCity Square proposal for 6.5 million square feet of retail, residential, office, and lab space on 27 acres of existing buildings and vacant land owned by Wexford and the nonprofit University City Science Center along and north of Market Street between 34th and 39th Streets.

In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.

Hakim, a frequent partner of Kevin Maloney's Property Markets Group, is developing a commercial building on a vacant Gowanus lot and is trying to sell the 44 - story Long Island City rental tower 1 QPS.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber, the ride - hailing company known for aggressive global expansion into hundreds of cities, has set its sights on Oakland, Calif., purchasing a vacant historic building across the bay from its San Francisco headquarters.

But two weeks ago the school district informed the park district that a vacant 4.5 - acre site owned by the school district is sufficient land on which to build the school.

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.

One asked for $ 8.1 million to buy the same vacant land, on which a developer plans to build new homes.

As part of a deal to build 68 single - family homes, the developer wants to trade Autumn Chase Park, a 1.1 - acre park on the west side of Merryoaks Drive, with a vacant 2.53 - acre site east of the street.

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.

In January 2014, Syracuse University, Mahoney, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, real estate developers and other insiders were negotiating behind the scenes to build a $ 500 million stadium on a vacant lot near downtown Syracuse - the heart of the 4th council district.

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.

And the agency pays more than $ 6 million each year on upkeep of two nearly vacant buildings: the agency's former headquarters on Jay Street in Brooklyn, and another in Mineola, LI.

Three dilapidated buildings sit on a vacant lumber yard in the Town of Smithtown and have been abandoned for about 12 years, according to town Councilman Edward Wehrheim.

Diaz Jr. — a frequent critic of the mayor who is oft - cited as a potential primary challenger — received nearly $ 100,000 in donations connected to a Queens - based construction company that went on to be awarded $ 1.4 million from Diaz Jr.'s fiscal year 2011 capital budget to build an apartment building on vacant land on Pelham Parkway.

While the Albany Convention Center Authority recently described the red X's placed on its vacant E-Comm buildings as simply a labeling designation for public safety officials, a recent photograph taken from above appears to show the roof of 6 E-Comm Square has caved in.

What was for decades a long strip of vacant land on the edge of the Fruit Belt is now sprouting the buildings of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - City officials toured St. George on Wednesday to discuss 55 Stuyvesant Place, a newly vacant building that officials hope to turn into a hub for innovation.

The project features the renovation of the four - story Christian Center building — formerly the Fraternal Order of Eagles — plus 12 floors of new construction on adjacent vacant land totaling 307,000 square feet.

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.

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 Bronx.

In the Weeksville Cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beachwood Organization will develop one building with 44 units on three vacant lots.

The project, on Walnut Avenue between Fifth and Seventh streets, involved new construction for 32 units in seven buildings where vacant structures once stood, and the re-purposing of an historic, long - abandoned educational building, for nine additional units.

In the East Harlem cluster, a team led by LOTT Community Development Corporation and MDG Design and Construction will construct four buildings with 75 units on six vacant lots.

In the Bedford - Stuyvesant East and Weeksville cluster, a team led by Habitat for Humanity will construct 10 buildings with 63 units on 14 vacant lots.

The plan calls for the creation of low - equity housing cooperatives, reinvesting in NYCHA housing, developing community land trusts, creating tax abatements for developers and entrepreneurs who bring business into Central Brooklyn and hire local residents must be encouraged to hire locally, offering quality careers to residents and a moratorium on wealthy developers being allowed to buy up apartment buildings and leave the units vacant.

In the Melrose - Concourse cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beechwood Organization will develop two buildings with 36 units on two vacant lots.

Paul Andreassen, a planning board member who beat out Roberti on the Independence party ballot, was unfazed by his win, stating that he «generated interest for the independents to come out and vote... My biggest platform is what can be done for vacant buildings and how they can be made viable again... [I'd like to] revitalize [our] community.»

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.

Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines on Wednesday made a push for a state law that would let the city decide on the sales of vacant MPS school buildings.

The developer, Concept Construction Corp., is seeking sales tax and property tax breaks through the Erie County Industrial Development Agency to build a $ 1.7 million, 15,000 - square - foot corporate headquarters and pharmacy on a vacant, 21 / 2 - acre site on North America Drive, according to ECIDA documents.

Landlords of rent - regulated buildings, however, rely on raising rent 20 percent in vacant units to recoup the losses they have acquired by subsidizing other apartments for years without adequate rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated apartments.

In a 10 - minute address, he went on to list what he has accomplished since he was first elected in 2005 — lower taxes, a budget surplus, the revival of the waterfront, opening Main Street to traffic, providing 22,000 summer jobs for youth, clearing vacant houses, adopting the Green Code and the boom in building and economic development.

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

In his letter, Towns explained the money provided «coordinated investment» with Rochester, and community revitalization of an area through the partial demolition and re-use of a dilapidated, long - vacant building «having a blighting impact on the surrounding areas.»

A hub would be built for the film industry and post-production companies on vacant industrial land in DeWitt.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- A site selection committee created by Governor Andrew Cuomo voted to recommend that Buffalo's next Amtrak Station be built downtown, rejecting the groundswell of support for resurrecting the massive and mostly - vacant NY Central Terminal on Buffalo's East Side.

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.

On the morning of May 22, 1984, Raffa, who owns several buildings and vacant lots in Brooklyn, drove to an empty supermarket he owned at 804 Stanley Avenue, in the East New York section.

The three, four, and five - bedroom apartments are within 28 buildings constructed on formerly vacant lots.

This year's theme is focusing on reducing arson at vacant and abandoned buildings, like the fire last month at the former Hudson River Psychiatric Center.

The redevelopment project consists of the construction and operation of the approximately 385,000 - square - foot, mixed - use building located on a vacant site adjacent to the Apollo Theater.

A couple of years ago the public was tantalized by a proposal to build a downtown grocery store rising out of a vacant parking lot on Ellicott Street, along with a high - rise building with apartments, offices and real estate space.

The first of the two is a 14,200 - square - foot medical office building that Northtowns Cardiology wants to build on vacant land at 190 Maple Road, just east of the Millersport Highway interchange.

But city officials denied Cor the building permit based on this Catch 22 - like argument: Until the new streets are finished, the land surrounding the planned apartment buildings is technically just vacant land, potentially available for building.

So both sides had incentives to burn buildings — the buildings were actually insured for more money than they were worth as rentals, and if the building was destroyed, you could build free - market housing on the site while paying very low property taxes when it was vacant.