They include number of employees, amount of capital employed, sales, type of ownership, perception of corruption, finance, and obstacles to growth, among other plant characteristics.
After a quarter of a century in which community opposition, lack of government financing and other obstacles thwarted the development of three prime patches at the edge of downtown Brooklyn, New York State moved yesterday to spur housing and retail projects on the sites.
Along with financing, the primary obstacles are land acquisition and the approval process.
Porumboiu, impatient with its slow pace and bureaucratic obstacles, financed "12 08" himself.
That debt burden adds serious obstacles to financing the great reconstruction.
If this deal falls through, either because of murky financing or unexpected regulatory obstacles, future investors of import may simply decide that Ping An shares are not worth the trouble.(This article was updated on January 9th at 12.20pm GMT).
Though prefabrication has a long history of capturing the public imagination dating at least as far back as Sears, Roebuck & Co., which sold nearly 100,000 houses by mail between 1908 and 1940, it has run up against numerous obstacles, from financing to factory standards to social stigma.
"Unless you do it for money or as a sort of product, to do anything you don't absolutely, exactly want to do is just really stupid," Mr. Malkovich said, adding that time conflicts, financing difficulties and other obstacles had kept him from directing a half-dozen times over the last decade.
