While it lacks the amenities of Union Square, waterfront development has made Long Island City more appealing to some technology entrepreneurs.
He scaled back, but did not halt, another controversial waterfront development, and broke a promise not to bail out two ailing credit unions.
These come on top of the existing regeneration work in Newport, including a new waterfront development alongside the River Usk that flows beside the city centre.
Assembly Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies said the plans added another dimension to the Swansea Waterfront development and would help promote it as a vibrant place to live and work.
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Also in the US, efforts to expand casino gambling in Maryland recently concluded with voters approving the construction of a billion-dollar casino at the National Harbor, a 350-acre waterfront development near Washington DC.
The development hasn't made the waterfront a year-round community, as hoped, but the area is busy in the summer months.
Jersey's treasury minister breached the terms of a contract for a development on St Helier's waterfront, a court has heard during a pre-trial hearing.
The payoff for Hines will be a trophy property in the heart of the rapidly redeveloping waterfront area--and a beachhead for further development in Spain, similar to ones it has established in Paris, Berlin and Moscow.
There will be a public presentation of the plans, and Dandara and its partners in the scheme, Marine Development Limited, will work with the Waterfront Enterprise Board and the Environment Committee to agree something acceptable to all.
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The latest work along that route is the development of a European-style boulevard along which aims to link the city centre to the waterfront.
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The project has been funded by the North West Development Agency which appointed national charity The Land Trust to transform the 36 hectare site into a waterfront park.
He points with particular pride to a development in Brooklyn's Williamsburg, where he successfully re-zoned decaying lots and warehouses on the waterfront for mixed income residential use, a park and a ferry to Manhattan.
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