Though the city does not have to complete its projects immediately, it does have to prove that it has sufficient sources of funding, and the Ukrainian central government — which in recent months has sought emergency aid from the International Monetary Fund and has a large debt to Russia for gas delivered under murky and disputed arrangements — has little cash to spare.
AECL is trying to complete its projects in order not to be sold.
It also said it had completed its project to extend superfast fibre-optic cables to street cabinets serving two-thirds of the UK, 21 months ahead of schedule.
Lifescapes International, a Newport Beach-based landscape architectural firm, said it has completed its project on a 264-unit luxury apartment complex in Santa Ana developed by Lyon Living, also based in Newport Beach.
But Mr. Milstein said he expected to complete his tower in 2004 after Boston Properties opens its building and before Forest City completes its project.
Just as Seattle has completed its project, Boston is set to embark on a huge redevelopment at the other end of I-90, an undertaking that may offer hints of what future large transportation projects will look like.
In 2003, after 13 years, the international human genome project completed its task of sequencing the 3 billion bp of human genomic DNA, estimating a total of ~28,000 to 34,000 genes.
"It makes it easier for a developer to put an imprint on a neighborhood," said Ken Kahan, the chief executive of California Landmark Development, a Los Angeles-based developer of urban housing that is completing its fourth project in the Marina Arts District.
The museum was eager for an architect who had never built in New York before, and hired Cloepfil, whose firm, Allied Works Architecture, in Portland, was just completing its first major project, the sharp and serene Contemporary Art Museum in St . Louis
