Despite 20 years of planning, work has barely begun on the bulk of the project.
But the bulk of the project will be affordable units, 682 of them, or more than half the total homes.
The research team has secured the bulk of the project's funding, worth about £100,000, from international sponsors with links to the extreme sports industry.
And lifting the bulk of the project three to five stories into the air meant that Mr. Holl could maximize the amount of public green space.
The Social Security lockbox, the centerpiece of that relationship for the past few years, was shorthand for a commitment that the bulk of the projected surplus, the portion coming from the retirement system, go only to reducing the national debt.
Completion of the bulk of the project is expected in late 2013, according to the two real estate companies, Hines Interests of Houston and Archstone of Englewood, Colo., that won development rights in 2003.
The bulk of the projected savings from the pension changes are expected over the long term — $82 billion over 30 years for the state and local governments, according to the Cuomo administration.
Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, said, "The bulk of the projected increase in spending on Medicare and Medicaid is due not to demographic changes, such as increases in the number of beneficiaries, but to increases in costs per beneficiary".
John Sherman of the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation said the state should create a traffic authority staffed with transportation experts to determine when and where such projects are done, and not leave the decisions to politicians, like Mayor Reed, who put together the bulk of the project lists.
