Atlanta's urban sprawl has doubled the land used for housing and commercial development since 1973.
Two major reasons for this are the conversion of prime agricultural land into residential and commercial development and rising land prices in areas surrounding this increasing encroachment.
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Transportation, workforce training, new housing and commercial development would be directed to the busiest parts of the city, while minimal services would be maintained in less populated areas.
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Increasingly, the PRC is using U.S. capital markets both as a source of central-government funding for military and commercial development and as a means of cloaking U.S. technology-acquisition efforts by its front companies with a patina of regularity and respectability.
It is a private island with 400 homes and no commercial development, accessible only to residents and their guests over a drawbridge with a security guard house.
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It excels at both. (Disclosure: I was a postdoctoral researcher in the 1970s at NIH's National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.) The NIH should maintain those roles and leave the development and manufacture of commercial products to the private sector.
The Atlanta Regional Multimodal Passenger Terminal Project is a part of a larger economic redevelopment plan for downtown Atlanta, and will also serve as a one of the catalysts for commercial and residential development on 120 acres of underutilized land in the area.
The American boom in venture capital that began in the 1980s has both incubated and accelerated the commercial development of countless quantum industries: personal computers, Web software and social networks, to name three.
Overexposure to construction and development loans including loans secured by multifamily and commercial properties: If loans for construction, land development, and other land, and loans secured by multifamily and commercial property are 300% or more of total risk capital, the institution would also be considered to have a CRE concentrations above prudent levels, and should employ heightened risk management practices.
We are at a stage where the role of government and global policy must be to encourage the development and commercial viability of the new technologies that have the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Real estate commercial and development loans fell 8% and credit card balances dropped 3.5%.
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Once the internal combustion engine made society mobile, a lot of cropland was magically converted into commercial and residential development acreage.
My sense also is that much of the work done at Chinese universities is application oriented and aimed at commercial development.
Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.
The Greater London Authority, which is being advised by Deloitte Real Estate, said on its website the regeneration project will "make use of the docks' main feature - the water - in a floating commercial and leisure development".
The Ayala group, for example, is still awaiting a contract for a railway connecting their property in the Makati business district to an area south where they have more than 4, 000 hectares of residential, commercial and industrial development.
To that end, President Obama and Prime Minister Tusk announced the convening of a high-level U.S.-Poland Business Roundtable that would foster a collaborative government and private sector discussion to identify new commercial opportunities, promote innovative research and development cooperation, and to address obstacles that hinder commercial growth.
Thus did he open the entire western U.S. to commercial development and secure Chicagos role as the nations future rail hub.
We want to achieve a situation where all countries in the region can pursue economic development and commercial ties and trade and do so without the threat that their populations are going to be subject to bombs and destruction.
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Costs are supposed to be kept under control partly by recycling 1960's-vintage airplane technology and partly by spreading rocket development and operating costs across various commercial, military and civilian missions.
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Working through grantees, it has had significant impact on promoting adoption of state and federal vehicle efficiency standards, more stringent residential and commercial building codes to reduce energy consumption, and development of renewable energy technology.
Commercial lending directors are responsible for the development, administration and oversight of commercial lending policies.
So it is no surprise that most of its future investment will be in commercial-transport development, and that a string of top defense executives have been shifted to the commercial side of the house.
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When Congress killed the program's funding in 2000, Bigelow licensed the government patents and began modernizing them for commercial development.
Spencer Birns, Cardiff Airport's head of commercial operations and air services development, said the bulk of the passenger drop was due to bmibaby's cuts to routes and frequency of service.
And what qualifies them to act as venture capitalists, choosing which commercial product development is the most promising and deserving of funding?
Traditional system integrators and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) are insulated from commercial IT innovations and vested in the status quo.
According to the Kansas Department of Commerce, sales tax revenue (STAR) bonds provide Kansas municipalities the opportunity to issue bonds to finance the development of major commercial, entertainment and tourism areas, and use the sales tax revenue generated by the development to pay off the bonds.
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Down-stream commercial and value-added activities development of farming, wood products, and fisheries industry communities.
This banking regulator allowed half the community banks in our country to lend too much money for Construction and Development loans and other commercial Real Estate loans.
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