"I'm waiting to hear some more from these fellows," said Joel Williams, a safety engineer who stood with his arms folded outside the civic convention center here on Saturday.
This new structure would be designed in part by a new "people's constitutional convention" of civic and political groups that would mimic the Scottish civic convention that helped frame the 1999 devolution settlement, which led to the creation of the Scottish parliament.
The implications of the findings are that, in the absence of legislative requirements to transform the wine industry, social codes and civic conventions are likely to remain significant, but that greater understanding is required of the different meanings and outcomes of transformation and empowerment being deployed within the industry.
"Civic centers, convention centers in Westchester.
— In the last decade or so, this city has been the beneficiary of investments in new academic campuses, a civic arena, a convention center, new parks, a transit center and more than 1,500 new units of downtown housing.
That is because the Council required that several million-dollar letters of credit held by the Democratic National Committee from a group of wealthy civic leaders backing the convention must be cashed before any of the new city money is spent.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Niagara Falls Convention and Civic Center during her recent Senate campaign, the roof leaked so much that tarpaulins had to be arranged to keep her and her Secret Service agents dry.
Sparing the approaching Republican National Convention a civic eyesore, bulldozers are moving in on the last of the 957 sinking homes of the Logan triangle, a stricken working-class swath of north Philadelphia that has festered as an urban disaster for more than a decade.
You can also find the units in colleges, civic centers, arenas, stadiums, convention centers, hospitals, private offices, fulfillment centers, and even a mall.
The new Olympic stadium would do double or triple duty as a home for the New York Jets and as a convention center, which the civic boosters, like civic boosters everywhere, say New York needs (see: "Conventions Are Big Losers" and " The Answer Is Always Yes").
The Democrats staggered to their convention in Chicago, where civic mayhem erupted.
