That is one reason the city often requires builders of ambitious projects to include a place that helps the public, like a school, in their plans.
Our election cycle tends to thwart infrastructural improvements that can take decades and don't provide short-term ribbon-cutting payoffs for politicians, which is why it's a wry commonplace among engineers and architects that autocratic regimes make the most aggressive builders of massive projects.
All this has made the area particularly attractive to deep-pocketed developers of residential projects, like Rockrose and AvalonBay, and they and other builders have a number of projects under way to house people who cannot afford Manhattan prices or decline to pay them.
"You can put the grid development plan directly in the bin," says Matthias Willenbacher of Juwi, a big builder of solar and wind projects.
This week's "In the Studio" installment welcomes a guest who has spent time as a video game development tester, a communications engineer at one of the world's foremost design firms, and a builder who has noodled on scores of projects up until about a year ago, when he and his colleagues created a product that may just have the lift to break through.
1 14 p.m. | The Leon D. DeMatteis Construction Corporation, which is both the developer and builder of the Upper East Side condominium project where a crane collapsed this morning has issued a statement expressing sorrow.
Following an environmental approach developed along the Chesapeake Bay shoreline in Maryland, New Rochelle has required the builder of a 15-home project called Riviera Shores to adopt practices intended to minimize the impact of runoff from roads and lawns on the fragile ecosystem of the Sound.
Kevin Smith is the chief executive of SolarReserve, one of the world's largest builders of solar power projects.
East River Park and its promenade date from the 1930's, when they were built in the era of Robert Moses, a city official known as a prolific builder of highways, parks and other public projects.
Larry Gargano, a builder, described the hamlet as a good place to do "infill type of projects," with plenty of sites for transit-oriented development.
On the various floors, the Muppet builders, costume designers and mechanization experts work on a wide assortment of projects.
