Sentence examples for construction arena from inspiring English sources

What emerges is a cautionary tale of an ambitious company seeking to become a bigger player in the public construction arena.

Re "Building Towers, Razing Sexism" (Preoccupations, Sept. 19), which described the progress of women in the construction field: I entered the all-testosterone construction arena through my family's steel fabricating business in the days when I was called "girlie".

Meanwhile, the construction arena has been failing since the housing bubble burst last summer, causing a surplus in the number of houses on the real estate market.

At the time, the Nets were languishing in Newark and could sell only a vague vision of Brooklyn and an under-construction arena.

At least a year and a half away from nesting in their under-construction arena in downtown Brooklyn, the Nets wanted Anthony for marketing opportunities and needed him if and when Paul, the incandescent New Orleans point guard, tries to leverage his way out, à la Anthony.

Even New Yorkers who've barely heard of Atlantic Yards, the Brooklyn mega-project with an under-construction arena for the basketball Nets plus 16 planned towers, know that it's been highly controversial since it was announced in December 2003.

Still, even with the reinvigorated market, the construction loan arena is a long way from what it was in the boom years.

Each Olympics sets off an explosion of activity years in advance -- the sale of television and advertising rights, the construction of arenas, housing and transportation systems.

At an estimated cost of $51 billion it is five times as expensive as the winter Olympics in Nagano, the preparation for which involved the construction of arenas, roads and a bullet-train line from Tokyo.

The "Brooklyn Arena and Infrastructure Project" presented to investors (as in the cover of the brochure, pictured) involves a fundamental dodge: the under-construction basketball arena, portrayed as the cornerstone of the "project," is already funded, state officials acknowledge.

Because of concerns about a Byzantine church, construction on the arena has yet to begin.