The million-dollar deal began a pattern of big advances for projects with clear commercial potential.
The Pentagon, after all, is supposed to pay only for projects with a military purpose.
Planning experts say it is hard to muster public support for projects with uncertain or distant benefits.
They have a particular fondness for projects with courtyards, which Mr. Meltzer said provide tenants with an unusual "non-New York experience".
It offers young people aged 18 to 30 the chance to volunteer for projects with NGOs abroad for up to 12 months, with no cost to the volunteer.
For projects with 51 to 100 units, a 9.5-percentage-point jump in prices left them 1percentt higher within the ring than outside it.
The company said the purchase would allow it to expand internationally and compete for projects with companies engaged in all phases of the oil business.
Central New York was awarded the largest combination of grants and tax credits, $103.7 million, for projects with focuses including clean energy, agribusiness and biotechnology.
"Nine out of 10 lenders" have stopped making construction loans for projects with 100 or more units, according to the developer David Barry, the president of the Applied Companies in Hoboken.
During his tenure, he turned back half a dozen requests for more money for projects with cost overruns, forcing mission leaders to trim the projects, streamline procedures or find other sources of financing.
This comes on the heels of a joint agreement between the US and China in which China also agreed to limit public support for "projects with high pollution and carbon emissions both domestically and internationally".
