Following up on my review last week of Via Verde, a groundbreaking green housing project soon to be completed in the Melrose section of the South Bronx, I took a walk around that neighborhood with Amanda M. Burden, director the Department of City Planning under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Groundbreakings, or housing starts, dipped 3.3percentt in May, to an annual rate of 975,000, the lowest level since March 1991.
As "Code Black" recently reminded us, we all miss the groundbreaking Gregory House, that brilliant, cantankerous and self-righteously frank creation of David Shore and Hugh Laurie.
Groundbreaking for new housing jumped 9.3percentt in November to the highest level in 19 months, fueling optimism that the battered housing market was regaining its footing.
SINGAPORE — Last autumn, Singapore's senior minister of state for national development and education helped officiate at the groundbreaking for a housing development in a new "eco city" that eventually will be home to 350,000 people.
A separate report from the Commerce Department showed groundbreaking for new housing dropped 10.6 percent to an annual rate of 523,000 units as a glut of homes on the market discouraged new projects.
Alfred Balk, a reporter, author and magazine editor who wrote groundbreaking articles about housing segregation and the Nation of Islam, and whose refusal to identify a confidential source led to a landmark court case, died on Thursday at his home in Huntley, Ill.
"We do not have enough power generation or distribution facilities and it is very difficult to site and to build those facilities," he said yesterday at a groundbreaking for new housing in Chelsea.
In 2005, at a public groundbreaking event for houses that Trump was building on the course onstage, in front of TV cameras and city-council members—he brought the lawsuit up, a reporter tells us, "basically out of nowhere".
