Beverage- and restaurant-industry executives have begun examining their options, including a possible lawsuit, to block the city from instituting a ban.
Famous for its size -- the warehouse-like building stretches for an entire city block -- this location is just one of five Powell's stores in the city.
The newest kid on the block is the City Max Hotel in the Al Barsha district.
Low2No plans to be a mixed-use eco-development in Helsinki, Finland about the size of a large city block.
Trips down the hall with Robot Rachel were akin to walking a city block with a balky toddler.
The barely moving line was a full city block long, avenue to avenue.
Then the designers carefully add the smallest details, using street-level videotape and photographs of every city block, building and storefront.
Alexander's, a department store chain that went bankrupt and closed in 1992, owns an entire city block on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Alexander's, a department store chain that went bankrupt and closed in 1992, owns an entire city block on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.
The move applies to the majority of shopping and residential streets in the area, which covers a two and half square mile block of the city.
"It's a sad situation, " said Abee Zarkeshan, 58, whose house was destroyed on the east side of this large city block and who isn't sure he'll rebuild.
Maris couldn't walk a city block without some new passer-by asking if that was Project Glass, how it worked and, of course, whether they could try it on.
With aggressive easing of monetary policies by the central banks of the U.S., U.K. and Japan, the euro is left as the least ugly dog on the city block.
It also closed the private Spanish Hospital, a complex that covers an entire city block, after waters rushed into the basement, cutting power and destroying X-ray machines and other diagnostic equipment.
The Boardmans were staying at the upscale Holiday Inn, which takes out a section of Patong about the size of a city block and is home to hundreds during the peak holiday season.
It would be comparable to saying that the combined citizenry of Chicago, Dallas and San Jose (about 4.84 million) was all, say, fans of the Kardashians, based on asking three people living on one block in each city.
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Opening his laptop, he pulled up an illustration by Monocle magazine of the perfect city block and pointed out how similar it was to a typical Taipei one, with storefronts facing the street and residences and parks tucked inside.
It's true that coffee lovers can find a satisfying Americano on almost any block in this city, but Stumptown's commitment to finding the best beans in the world, along with the company's devotion to sustainability and "green" growing practices makes it especially popular with Portlanders.
McCollough walks away after spearheading a drive to move or refurbish a block of Circuit City stores, an effort designed to close a quality gap a with Best Buy franchise seen as having better locations, brighter and less cluttered stores, and top-of-the-line service led by its famed Geek Squad customer support operation.
The funds are provided through bond refinancing savings Community Development Block Grant, and city funds.
They used to block development in the city centre, fearing that it would mean higher taxes.
The council said residents from the city centre block could use showering facilities at leisure centres.
He made block-by-block maps of the city, color-coded by the hospital costs of its residents, and looked for the hot spots.
One Direction is packing them in, but so did the Jonas Brothers, New Kids on the Block and the Bay City Rollers.
While the center of Erfurt is still picturesque and remains a big draw for tourists, some big block buildings on the city's outskirts that used to be residential apartments now sit empty, many of them boarded up.
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Yet the reality, increasingly, is that they can't and don't leave the bubble -- the bubble moves right along with them, except that it is no longer merely a bubble, it is a heavily fortified multiple-city-block mobile bunker.
But Wall Street and Main Street are not on the same block, or the same city.
Gates have been installed at critical canals to help block water from entering the city during storm surges.
Like the expansion, the deck offerings are features from the original Ravnica: City of Guilds block and do not highlight any upcoming Gatecrash options.
That issue proved to be a major stumbling block to the New York City evaluations, according to Mr. Bloomberg, who said the union waited until the last minute to raise the idea of giving the agreement an expiration date.
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