The phrase "as development sites" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to locations or platforms designated for development purposes, such as construction, software, or project development.
Example: "The city has identified several areas as development sites to encourage urban growth and infrastructure improvement."
Alternatives: "designated for development" or "identified as development locations".
Property developers said they were acquiring former gas stations as development sites — despite risks associated with possible contamination — because they are some of the few remaining options for development in Manhattan Longg Island City, Queens; and Williamsburg and downtown Brooklyn.
Parking lots in Manhattan are useful for drivers, of course, but their real value is as development sites.
These are then sold on at a huge profit after redesignation as development sites.
Their smallness actually helped protect them before there was a landmarks law, since 20- and 25-foot lots are not attractive individually as development sites.
"Typically, gas stations make ideal sites, and as development continues out into the boroughs, I believe they'll be identified there as development sites also".
As well as "strategic" development sites for more than 500 homes and in some cases up to 1,000 homes, some existing housing areas will be expanded with up to 400 new homes.
Studies are needed to determine how fine-scale spatial segregation of Ae. albopictus and Ae. aegypti mosquitoes might result from competition for containers that serve as larval development sites, from differential survival related to container type, and from hydrologic microclimates or nutrient conditions.
The international terms for compliance include unfettered access by officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency -- the United Nations body that monitors nuclear programs around the world -- to weapons development sites, as well as chemical samplings from places where enriched uranium suitable for weapons is being produced.
As with most development sites on the crowded island of Manhattan, this one has a story of intrigue and disputes.
The general said it was one thing to ask such questions at the kind of processing plants listed as potential weapons development sites, but quite another to ask them at military sites.
Cisco, based in San Jose, Calif., has looked at other development sites in Times Square and Jersey City, as well as at renovating an old factory building at 77 Hudson Street in Lower Manhattan.
