Three Ministry of Defence sites in Bath earmarked for housing have been sold to developers, the MoD has confirmed.
The site, opened in 1941, was used as a radar monitoring station until 2005, before being sold to developers.
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Uganda's Daily Monitor told its readers that the prestigious Makerere University - the country's oldest - will be sold to developers planning to build a satellite city on the site, forcing its 30, 000 students to find places at other universities.
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China wants state-owned houses to be sold and foreign and local developers to build new ones.
An Associated Press article this week notes that the city of Newark, NJ, staring into a budget abyss, sold 16 city buildings to developers and investors, including the Newark Symphony Hall and police and fire headquarters.
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Software tools, sold on a subscription basis to developers looking to add more intelligence and functionality to a growing range of products, are an increasingly important part of its embedded-software business.
If there were insufficient transmission capacity to accommodate wind farms in Oregon that sold power to consumers in northern California, no developers would have proposed building those wind farms and no investors would have given them millions of dollars to do so.
The site closed at the end of 2012 after its owner, BAE Systems, sold the bulk of the land to developers.
Some sold out to what used to be called developers, and they'd put in five or ten poorly built houses.
The Nexus 7 tablet, which goes on sale this month, is the first-ever Android tablet sold by Google, part of its efforts to convince developers to create apps for its mobile system and users to buy into its online marketplace called Google Play.
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Two years ago the MTA sold the site of the New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle to developers of the new AOL Time Warner center.
And the fact that Apple recently sold its 400 millionth iOS device means that both mobile and console game developers will continue to flock toward the iPhone (and iPad) as a way to reach an instant, incredibly massive and diverse audience.
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Privileged belongers have been sold crown land for as little as 25% of its market value, sometimes flipping it onwards to commercial developers.
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