Daunting problems persist: desolate lots still blemish the community; ramshackle buildings remain; there is a dearth of on-the-block retail activity; drug deals still go down.
Working with the Economic Development Corporation, Procida is already planning a two-block retail center called Washington Plaza, between 163rd and 164th Streets, including a much-needed supermarket.
LYDIG AVENUE, a long, curvy street with a bustling seven-block retail corridor in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, seems to have everything a shopping strip might need.
Since 4 July, seven funds invested in office blocks, retail parks and the like have barred withdrawals or cut their value as retail investors head for the door.
Losses from poor lending decisions on office blocks, retail outlets and the like by HBOS are a big reason why its shotgun takeover by Lloyds proved so disastrous.
But let's be clear: these funds do not invest in residential or private rental property, focusing instead on office blocks, retail centres, industrial premises and even GP surgeries.
So begins an eerie convoy that lasts three hours and threads us, in a series of irregular arcs, through tower blocks, retail parks, suburban villages, the soggy East Dunbartonshire countryside, Clydeside shipyards and a council sports club.
Rather than blocking retail clinics, doctors should find ways to encourage and build alliances with them.
If more Chicagoans spend as much time marching to the polls next year as they have downtown blocking retail traffic that, too, will be progress.
This suit comes in the wake of a season marked by weeks of protests that blocked retail traffic in downtown Chicago, a city still reeling from revelations of what was essentially a multi-institutional cover-up around the shooting death of another teen, Laquan McDonald.
As for 255 Greenwich Street, where the city recently renewed a long-term lease for more than 200,000 square feet, Jack Resnick & Sons is hoping the new address will help spur interest in a large block of retail real estate it has begun to market.
