The gas-station sale set a record price per square foot for a development site in Chelsea.
But it is not the only former development site which has had to be cleaned up at ratepayers' expense.
The council said the main access routes to the development site needed to be completed before work could begin.
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The university, advised by Ira Schuman of real-estate services firm Studley, marketed the building as a potential development site.
The academy element of the project had attracted opposition from some residents who wanted the development site declared a village green.
Twice as large as Belfast's Titanic Quarter and four times the size of London's Canary Wharf, it is the largest development site in public ownership.
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Labour councillor Brenda Arthur, leader of the council, said the development site was in an area of the city where "people need jobs and good facilities".
The proposed new publicly-listed REIT consists of twelve office properties, six retail properties, and one development site and is anchored by the world-famous officer tower known as The Empire State Building.
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The proposed new Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) consists of 12 office properties, six retail properties, and one development site and is anchored by the world-famous officer tower known as The Empire State Building .
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That has not come to pass, and, though he is also losing the seven office buildings he bought from Equity Office Properties in February 2007-- Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) has put them all on the market--he still has a major development site at Park Avenue and 56th Street, the former Drake Hotel and a handful of other impressive assets.
If the Outstanding Universal Value of a site is threatened by natural disaster, armed conflict or unchecked development, the site may be inscribed on the World Heritage in Danger list.
Zuckerberg, never a people person, had finally cleared his schedule for the more interesting work of site development.
Concerns raised included over-development of the site, a need for a pedestrian crossing and that the road network is already "sub-standard".
"We're not getting too much encouragement from the planning department at the moment and that's holding up the development of the site, " he said.
The base is on Crown land and that means planning permission does not have to follow the normal procedure for any development on the site.
It is all part of the ongoing development of the site.
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Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates welcomed the potential development of the site.
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Mr Attwood has said he will not be changing his mind over his decision to limit further development on the site of the planned John Lewis store near Lisburn.
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Turnaround continues to seek new grants and further fundraising to help for other costs included in the development of the site and for the revenue funding required to run the new projects.
The Lib Dems also oppose the development at the site, with its leader Stephen Giles-Medhurst said Mr Pickles has "not listened to local wishes, even though he understands it will cause harm to the area".
In contrast, Artfire encourages sellers to include links to their other selling spaces like Etsy and has approached site development and services based on what will best support the community of sellers and buyers.
Another of his firms, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), having acquired London's Millennium Dome and renamed it The O2 after a sponsorship deal, has announced plans to include Britain's only permitted super-casino in its development of the site.
"You can debate the merits of the application but you cannot divorce the fact that the whole viability of the college depends upon the development of a site which thousands of people do not find acceptable, " he said.
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City officials in Oakland have been trying for over a decade to attract a viable development to the site, which is located along an estuary that runs the length of Oakland's southern border and out into the San Francisco Bay.
It then fought to stop the development by having the site declared a village green.
The regional development agency acquired the site in 2005, but it was transferred to the HCA when Yorkshire Forward was abolished.
The project has seen three phases completed between 2003 and 2011 which addressed various conservation and urban development issues threating the site.
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As well as funding the development of the Boulby site, the investment will go towards upgrading the company's Teesport operation near Middlesbrough, which exports potash mined at Boulby.
The Welsh Development Agency owns the site and intends to build a hi-tech business park to recoup some of the 250 jobs lost by the closure of KTH.
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