Two ranchers with adjacent properties each donated one half square mile to create the town.
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.
The ambitious project is being built on three and half square miles of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to provide accommodation for 250, 000 people and employment opportunities for a further 150, 000.
At current prices, that will only buy half a square meter of an apartment in downtown Beijing.
In Butte County, a fast-moving blaze called the Panther Fire has burned about half a square mile since it was sparked Wednesday morning, state fire officials said.
Interest and exploration increased further in 2011, when the Chinese National Geography published some never-before-seen photographs and illustrations hypothesising what the small city, which measured about half a square kilometre, might have looked like in its heyday.
In a state with 700, 000 people spread over half a million square miles, Palin had to deal with issues that wouldn't be unfamiliar to a small-town mayor in other states.
The first half ended all-square with the Scots raging that a punch on John Beattie had not been spotted.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.
Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.
In his second season in charge of Kidderminster he took them to an FA Trophy final and guided the club to a top-half finish in the Blue Square Premier.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has also announced that it is having a China rethink, admitting it had made mistakes in its haste to expand and saying that it has cut by one-half the amount of new square footage that it will add in the country.
In theory, a solar shade could provide any amount of cooling, but the researchers estimate that it would have to have an area of 4.1m square kilometres (half the size of Brazil) to offset half the warming expected over the next century, assuming no cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions occur.
It shows a comparable gross margin, but has higher expenses, half the growth rate in revenue and scant expansion in square footage. (The Gap, with half of Kmart's revenue, flaunts 40% gross margins and earns twice as much money.) Costco does compete well with Sam's Club, the slower growing, warehouse-style branch of Wal-Mart.
The home totals six bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms in 8, 118 square feet of living area.
The Italians took the early initiative and Mirco Bergamasco slotted two penalties before Dan Parks replied to square the scores at half-time.
Well, Zuckerman had a prime tenant lined up to fill half of the 47-floor Times Square Tower.
All four of City's goals came in the first half as they recorded their first Blue Square South win of the season.
James (Jim) Foster, an animal breeder, has 187, 500 furry creatures in just one of his kennels, a half-filled 6, 000-square-meter building in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Half of the city's 282 square miles are too hilly or marshy to build on, says Liliane Mupende Uwanziga, Kigali's director of urban planning.
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Design-wise the Nexus 4 Wireless Charger looks similar to a smaller Nexus Q cut in half, down to the matching recessed square connector cutout.
City of Hope's gene factory encompasses 20, 000 square feet of space, half of it devoted to "clean room" labs dedicated to producing complex, genetically engineered treatments for its trials.
The work is part of a joint venture led by Shell (40% stake), Saudi Aramco and Total, which will explore 81, 000 square miles of desert, half the size of California.
When fashion king Calvin Klein first purchased the South half of the 5, 000-square-foot, two-level penthouse in the iconic Art Deco building at 55 Central Park West, the designer installed a hot tub on the rooftop terrace.
But once one gets behind the relatively small urban core, the overall density is barely 2, 200 per square mile, less than half San Jose or Los Angeles, hardly a fifth that of Tokyo and not much more than Atlanta, the least dense major city in the world with more than 2.5 million residents.
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The rate at which tenants absorb space in the area has fallen 35% , to 610, 000 square feet leased in the first half of this year, from 940, 000 during the same period last year.
Nationwide, Tishman signed about 2.25 million square feet of leases in the first half of 2009.
Flags at the Football Association headquarters in London's Soho Square and at Wembley Stadium flew at half mast.
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