We have urged American and European companies to demand that suppliers improve working conditions and to help pay for factory renovations.
Industry officials and labor groups have been discussing a legally binding agreement requiring Western brands and retailers to conduct independent factory inspections and to help pay for factory renovations, like adding external fire exits and smoke alarms.
Mr. Kabakoff expects to repeat with American Can the success of earlier factory renovations like the Cotton Mill Apartments, which he developed as an anchor for the New Orleans Warehouse District, a once-blighted neighborhood now thriving with art galleries and restaurants.
Other major projects include the building of the Big Easy concert house (now the Knitting Factory) and renovation of the historic Montvale Hotel, the Kirtland Cutter-designed Davenport Hotel (after being vacant for over 20 years), and the Fox Theater (now home to the Spokane Symphony).
"This bus was used to transport workers to a cigar factory, before renovations started last month," he said, pointing at a large, dingy yellow bus.
THE BALCONY -- A balcony looking out over the white room is filled with benches made from beams that were removed from the factory during its renovation.
In this paper we present a software renovation factory which is, as much as possible, user controlled.
Two modes of control are distinguished: an architectural mode where an operational renovation factory is constructed out of a set of available tools (parsers, unparsers, transformation modules), and an execution mode where the operational factory is applied for renovation purposes.
I'd probably have to rethink" — he laughed — "the world of marketing!" The conversion from gallery to factory involved a complete renovation of the Maccarone's six-thousand-square-foot space on Greenwich Street.
Risk of take-home occupational exposures was assessed by inquiring whether a parent/other family member was in one of the following occupations/hobbies: gas station attendant, home renovation, battery factory, automobile worker, welding, pottery, stained glass manufacture, or use of firearms.
