London is alone among Europe's great cities in its drooling slavery to "anything goes" on its skyline, in its refusal to stand up to big money or choose a handsome development from a rubbish one.
Mr. Silverstein's company, which took over the lease of the twin towers six weeks before they were attacked, has already received billions of dollars in support: insurance, government bonds and subsidies, plus a handsome development fee for the Port Authority's construction of the 1,776-foot 1,776-foot atalle sitower
In other words, the closer property owners lived to these often handsome developments, the better they fared.
On a curve in a handsome new residential development, four of five homes are for sale, at least two of which have already been repossessed by a lender.
Drive around the San Gabriel Valley and the signs of immigrant prosperity are everywhere: handsome new housing developments, grocery stores with Asian delicacies crowding the shelves and elegant Chinese restaurants such as this one in Walnut.
Its new developer is looking for handsome profits from waterfront development, but visitors are welcome at its Tuscany-style clubhouse.
On her watch, the administration has undertaken financing 165,000 units of affordable housing by 2014, of which more than 130,000 have been built, and has created projects like Via Verde, the handsome, eco-friendly subsidized development in the South Bronx.
Soon more than 1,000 new condominiums will enter the market, mostly converted lofts, but also a handsome new low-rise development (called, inevitably, SoMa, for "south of the Market").
Seven years in development, this handsome little machine does everything with the push of a button, burr-grinding the beans, filtering the water, even cleaning itself (you do have to foam your own milk, but the digital display gives you a countdown timer to tell you when to stop).
Efforts to develop anti-H.I.V. drugs have paid handsome dividends by leading to development of other drugs to treat other viral infections, like the liver diseases hepatitis B and C and certain types of herpes viruses.
He was handsome and intelligent, owned a software development company, and hiked at the Delaware Water Gap every weekend.
