The city never got built: Florida authorities nixed the development, arguing that the ostensibly green and pleasant city amounted to urban sprawl.
The traditional kickoff of the holiday shopping season normally coincides with a flurry of seasonal hiring in the city, amounting to as many as 25,000 extra jobs.
Perhaps the price for a safer, more livable city amounts to the high costs necessary to keep those who choose to deal drugs off our streets.
Anthony Coles, a former deputy mayor in the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani who represented the city in often contentious negotiations, said that back rent alone owed to the city amounted to $600 million.
The blast, which along with several others around the city amounted to the deadliest violence in the capital in nearly two months — two more explosions struck Thursday night in Sadr City, killing at least 18 people — occurred around 9 30 a.m., and Hussein Abbas, who runs a local business selling windowpanes, said he received the first call for repairs around 11 a.m.
Ted Hershberg, a professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania and an advocate of tying cities and suburbs closer together, complained that the tendency to deny the identity of a region's core city amounts to a way of placating nervous suburbanites.
By the researchers' calculations, the total cost of these increases across the city amounted to about $616 million.
All told, the city amounts to a few tarred roads, some banks and public buildings, a few shops and petrol stations, where there are often queues as there are shortages of basic commodities.
Total estimated damages in the city amounted to $300,000.
