In Damascus Township, Route 652 continues through a moderate stretch of development and at an intersection with Trot Lane Road, the highway turns to the northeast once again.
In 1985, when the government decreed the village a new city — part of a stretch of state-planned developments east of Paris — Bussy Saint-Georges counted a mere 500 souls.
For anyone troubled by the voting in Florida last fall, the future seems to have arrived here in this rocky, arid and chad-free stretch of development and desert about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles.
Englewood Cliffs subsequently rezoned a stretch of land that includes the development site to allow for taller buildings, an action that remains the focus of a second, still unresolved lawsuit.
Last year, ground was broken on a $5 billion, 25-year Chinese-financed tourism project that includes an airport, a sea port, a golf course and a large commercial development along a stretch of Koh Kong's southern coast, now accessible only by boat.
Together, the America's Cup Organisation and the City of Valencia wanted to create a new development, in a stretch of redundant docklands, that would be thoughtful, elegant and substantial, and which could simultaneously serve the general public and the wealthy VIP set associated with the yachting trophy.
The Battle for Ningaloo Reef is a clear-eyed account of the activism that prevented a major commercial development from destroying a stretch of the Western Australian coastline.
Araminta, or Minty, as the 10-year-old narrator is called, lives on a dead-end street in a suburban development backed by a stretch of deep, dark woods.
But land values have soared -- even on the mainland -- and most of these lean-tos have been replaced either by bigger businesses or, more likely, condominium developments shoehorned onto a stretch of sandy property.
A stretch of track is ruined, too.
It is a stretch of 28 tournaments.
