The community's history of blocking construction goes back to 1974, when environmentalists stopped a plan to build a hotel and convention center.
The area will become history's largest construction site, or so says the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Centre, an agency that oversees all downtown Manhattan building projects.
The interesting thing when you look at our economic history is, when a construction worker has got some money in his pocket, he goes out and buys a new car.
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The desire to control others is a constant in history and is part and parcel of the construction of states.
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Mr. Knecht breaks up the story of Lucky Linda's construction by salting in some rather fun history of yachting though the ages, beginning with Pharaoh Ptolemy IV, who ruled Egypt 200 years before Christ and built a 400-foot vessel powered by several hundred oarsmen.
The safari park said it is dedicated to providing a retirement space for dysfunctional elephants, which led it to undertake its largest-ever construction project in the park's 43-year history.
Better regulations are needed on things like well construction and wastewater management, particularly in states without a recent history of natural gas production.
Downing Street said Hafod Eryri had been included on the 'better public building award' shortlist because it had been built on such a "highly inhospitable construction site" and continued to celebrate the mountain's history and folklore.
Will the large quantity of new construction in an area that has already undergone struggles in its short history sell?
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But freestanding islands weren't common in residential design until the post-War construction boom, says Sandy Isenstadt, University of Delaware professor of architectural history.
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The "People of the Springs" exhibit traces the city's obscure history, from Native American dwellings to the arrival of the railroad on the Western frontier and the construction of Hoover Dam.
If one were to graph the pace of technological breakthroughs and resulting business structure changes and wealth creation throughout history, the graph would include little spikes to include the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction, Chinese paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
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