DEVELOPERS in New York City have been trying to one-up one another over the last decade with the newest amenities for their apartment buildings — so much so that many buildings have started to look like cruise ships.
Developers also say that banks that had steered clear of construction loans for residential buildings have started to loosen their purse strings, although they are still unlikely to approve loans for condo projects with more than 100 units.
"Buildings have started disappearing or are slated to disappear at an alarming rate," said Ms. Culhane, 40, who put together the successful nomination in 2010 for Chinatown and Little Italy as a national historic district.
He explained that the buildings had started life in the 15th century as a hermitage that in time was fortified to guard against Barbary pirates raiding the nearby coast.
Via the integration of renewable energy and storage technologies, buildings have started to change from passive (electricity) consumers to active prosumer microgrids.
Recently with a growing population and vast growing urbanization some buildings have started to experience structural damages, which are not related to their construction design, but rather to the ground conditions around the buildings' foundations.
By early 2011, the Trump buildings had started to turn a profit, according to Dezer.
Clearance of the other surviving remnants of the monastic buildings had started but the moated enclosures were still in existence at that time.
Meanwhile, workshops teaching activists how to occupy vacant buildings have started to spring up as renters struggle under the hammer of greedy landlords and a dispassionate political class.
A landlord adding five stories and a penthouse to his Upper West Side apartment building has started bricking up 48 windows on the six existing floors, leaving some tenants frantic about losing light and air.
