• Exploiting a state redevelopment act that allows municipalities to extract extra tax money by developing depressed areas, Industry declared 80% of the city land blighted by 1974, allowing the city to sell that land to any developer of its choosing without putting out a request for public bids.

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  • As of now I am negotiating with the land owner in the city proper of Zamboanga City Philippines, I am proposing a 60 unit Housing Projects covering more than I hectare land and it cost me 25 to 30 Million pesos in order to start the project.

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  • It also boasted a grand civic centre, created after the marquess of Bute sold 24 hectares of land to the city for the building of public buildings in 1897.

    BBC: Capital claims - A city's struggle

  • But as the supply of city land shrank, the Housing Partnership turned its focus to mostly provided technical assistance to developers.

    WSJ: Banking on New Role

  • Conservative-led South Cambridgeshire District Council agreed the plots on greenbelt land north of the city should be authorised.

    BBC: Sandy Park, Chesterton

  • Pairote was also criticized for supporting influential Chon Buri tycoon Somchai Khunpluem when he was charged with corruption in the purchase of land by the Pattaya City Administration.

    CNN: Judged by the Company He Keeps

  • For example, Odebrecht and other firms building the stadiums for the main Olympic Park on a triangle of land jutting into a lagoon south of the city earn the right to develop half the land once the Games end.

    WSJ: Rio Hopes for an Olympic-Style Revival

  • The facility, which will occupy a 3 acre piece of land in Wakiso one of the Kampala city suburbs, will offer specialized healthcare, nursing care and short-term assisted living for the elderly.

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  • "The genius of this is taking land the city doesn't have the capacity to develop and giving it to the people who do, " said Mark Freidman, a local developer and member of Ranadive's group, who explained that the "public-private partnership" makes the entire Kings investment viable.

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  • The core of the city sits on land once occupied by a factory Panasonic (then Matsushita) used to produce black and white TVs and refrigerators.

    FORBES: Panasonic's Next Product: A Small Green Town

  • R. 1442, which directs the Department of the Interior to convey the Federal reversionary interest in approximately 60 acres of land located in Salt Lake City, Utah, to the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Some people have questioned the use of city bonds to buy the land which will be given to the National Archives for the library.

    ECONOMIST: The Clintons and Arkansas

  • This is about how the over 300 co-operative urban gardens of the city of Havana, which includes 35000 acres of land being used for urban agriculture, make it possible to ensure the food safety of Cubans, by providing each citizen 280g of fruits and vegetables every day, and provide work to many unemployed people.

    UNESCO: Social Sciences

  • Cyclone Mohasen currently in the Bay of Bengal is expected to intensify and land Thursday just south of Chittagong, the second-largest city in Bangladesh.

    WSJ: Cyclone Threatens Bangladesh, Myanmar

  • Our development strategy is to focus our investment on land in the outskirts of a city where there is good growth and price appreciation potential.

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  • At the time, 46 percent of the city's population were low-income construction workers, domestics, drivers and street sellers squatting on land on the outskirts of the city of 350, 000, 150 miles east of Mexico City.

    CNN: 'Protest with a proposal'

  • As in London, the main site was on reclaimed industrial land, a few miles west of the city centre, and it was connected to downtown Sydney by a new train line and ferries.

    ECONOMIST: When the circus leaves town

  • On Monday, a senior MQM leader blamed the violence on gangs of extortionists and land grabbers who had taken the city hostage.

    BBC: Karachi political attacks kill 50, say rights groups

  • With its short life and great height, the spiky Shard graphically illustrates exponentially increasing inner-city land values, while the chaos of old and new masonry surrounding it testifies to the greed and short-termism of successive generations.

    BBC: A Point of View: Staring at the Shard

  • In December, four years since the track's demolition, Leicester City Council announced the sale of the land.

    BBC: Leicester and Derby: A tale of two velodromes

  • Established after the war, it runs (with perforations) all around London, to a depth of up to 50 miles, and bans almost all building on half a million hectares of land around the city.

    ECONOMIST: Housing

  • Victoria Police sent an e-mail to Apple on Monday morning Sydney time, asking it to fix the flaw, but a check on the location on Apple Maps at 10pm Pacific time on Sunday shows the app is still showing the city as incorrectly being in a pocket of land in the middle of the desert park.

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  • This began in 1993 when the city government sold 16 acres of land to a private health-care company for a hospital to serve a poor area in the west of Mexico City.

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  • Sounding as if he were shocked, shocked, that there were insider dealings going on, Roski filed a lawsuit in 1991 accusing the City Council of buying land and then renting it to the mayor at a low-ball fee for his farming and cattle business.

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  • During the 1970s and 1980s, the city of Atlanta, which covers about 130 square miles of land, shrank by more than 100, 000 people.

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  • In 2010 the City of Munich bought the land surrounding the wave from the State of Bavaria and agreed to take responsibility for what happened there, legalising the sport.

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  • But most geographers would say that one-tenth of the country's land-mass is already in Europe, as is most of its biggest city.

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  • At the Seinaejoki Civic Center, begun in 1958, where the land is flat, he designed both land and building together as a series of rising grassy platforms ascending to the elevated city hall.

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  • The widespread damage to the city has much to do with its topography, or "lay of the land, " English said.

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  • The explosive growth of the Atlanta metro area, which encompasses more than 6, 000 square miles of land in more than 25 counties, effectively masked two decades of population losses within the city's traditional limits.

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