Word: redevelopment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Push reasonable legislation to redevelop economically impaired areas, undertake needed tax reforms, stand for sound fiscal management...
...plan for a grandiose $130 million "Palace of Progress" over Pennsylvania Station has been dropped, he said (the foundations alone, it developed, would cost another $45 million). But now he hopes to build an even bigger project on Manhattan's West Side. This time, the idea is to redevelop 40 acres between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River, create a $300 million-$500 million city of the future, with a vast merchandise mart, a permanent World's Fair, a heliport, a glittering television city, a parking lot for 20,000 cars, and a 1,750-foot "Freedom Tower...
Lynch cited the urban renewal program--which will redevelop large tracts of city land for residential as well as industrial and business use--as the city's best chance to maintain its present population, and even recover some of the "lost battalion...
...combat the overall problem, the President proposed this package plan: 1) stop the spread of blight by strict enforcement of occupancy and maintenance standards, 2) rehabilitate areas that can be saved by remodeling, repainting, building parks and playgrounds, etc., 3) raze and redevelop slums that cannot be saved. By building centers of health in declining neighborhoods, the Government hopes to spur home and apartment owners to repair, repaint, clean...
...famed Bauhaus showed 300 friends and colleagues a model of a sheer, glass-walled office building, as clean and functional as a tumbler, which will rise 18 stories near Chicago's Loop. Also on display was an immense aerial view of Chicago's project to redevelop seven square miles of the city's South Side, including a spacious new hospital in a lakefront garden setting which Gropius is working...