Word: redevelopment
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Harvard’s plan to redevelop the Arsenal complex in Watertown draws criticism. The city claims that the University’s tax-exempt status will cost it tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue. The University claims it will pay a “generous and appropriate fee” in lieu of taxes. Busloads of school children stage a miniature protest...
...Many New Yorkers are already back in top form, bickering over plans to redevelop the stricken downtown area, complaining about traffic snarls, doing our best to carry on the traditions that make this city work. But the workers at Ground Zero don't have that option - they're stuck in a time warp, reliving that awful day again and again. They make it safe for the rest of us to go downtown and breathe the air and wonder at the cool efficiency of the cleanup effort. "It's amazing," we marvel to ourselves. "It's like a clean slate...
...repertoire for the standard 18 months, a change intended to accommodate short stand-alone runs for star players with film commitments. Among the takers are Ralph Fiennes and Kenneth Branagh, former RSC players who have pledged to return. The company is spending more than $140 million to redevelop its Stratford base, including a new academy for young classical actors. And the RSC will send more of its touring companies abroad; a five-year program with the University of Michigan is already underway...
Dallas isn't alone in recognizing that developers hungry for cheap industrial sites help keep dollars and jobs from fleeing to the suburbs. Environmentalists too are beginning to see brownfields' redevelopment as a way to preserve pristine spaces in the exurbs. Even the EPA, whose Superfund efforts in the 1980s caused many landlords to fence in and lock up sites, has loosened its regulatory oversight since 1995. While developers could technically still be held liable for past contamination, nonlitigation agreements between Washington and 16 states--including Texas--are a wink and a nod by the feds to encourage the cleanup...
...mayor may have overstepped his executive bounds in granting the BRA $7 million of city funds to redevelop City Hall Plaza...