Sentences with phrase «vacant structures»

As completed, each house has been occupied immediately — has had to be occupied immediately, given the ubiquity of thieves prepared to strip plumbing and fixtures from vacant structures — by a family whose name has been drawn from a waiting list exceeding four thousand.

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 recent years, developers Carl Paladino, Ben Obletz and Rocco Termini have brought older and oftentimes vacant structures back to life as residential lofts and apartments, offices and retail outlets.

Speaking Thursday, Deputy Public Safety Commissioner John Daley said over the past two years, code enforcement efforts to target vacant structures have been supported by a $ 150,000 state grant.

The pattern is all too familiar to neighbors and authorities: set during a quiet time at the rear of a vacant structure that is accessible via one of Troy's numerous alleys, which date back to the late 1700s», many of them originally streets in their own right.

Plans call for the long - vacant structure to be redone into a 23 - unit apartment building serve the growing housing needs of the adjacent Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

To date, the Land Bank has seized approximately 1,300 tax delinquent properties, demolished 175 vacant structures and put 440 properties back on the tax rolls where they are generating $ 800,000 / year in property taxes.

Physically, his screen - presence is awesome but even the most charismatic of actors would struggle to warm the vacant structure of the film.

During the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, the government tried many times without success to do something with the vacant structure, including a negotiation with the local conference center.

Thousands of abandoned homes plague the city, but Detroit's mayor is setting out to remove «eyesores» by tearing down thousands of these vacant structures.

The properties have varied in size and age, but many were dilapidated, vacant structures or a city block left empty because an... Read More

Winners of the contest received cash and a plot of land or a vacant structure.