Sporting events that require fast-paced, high-priced infrastructure projects cannot happen in a bubble, without all ranks of society helping the procedure and paying the costs.
Muir summed up the situation succinctly when she said that "when it comes to executive pay, pet projects, high-priced lawyers, there's plenty of money.
"A budget is a statement of a city's priorities," she said, adding that "when it comes to executive pay, pet projects, high-priced lawyers, there's plenty of money.
But alternatives to time-consuming projects and high-priced "green" goods do exist – I promise.
Market forces are skewing new building projects towards high-priced homes that are out of the reach of most families.
"CityTime is an example of how an allegiance to the notion that outside people are always better can be faulty," said Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, who added that the Bloomberg administration had been overly eager to outsource projects to high-priced contractors rather than handle them in house.
The middle- to low-hanging fruit: Don't worry about the difficult, the high-priced and the highly complicated projects.
There the government is aiding a private corporation to seize the homes of Susette Kelo and others to build a hotel, high-priced condos, an office building and other projects to complement a major pharmaceutical company.
PROJECT ALABAMA, a high-concept, high-priced label started by Natalie Chanin in 2000, has been reimagined as a mid-priced, wearable collection by its new design director, Morgane Le Fay.
It is difficult for buyers to pull out of ambitious capital projects, and there is still plenty of high-priced work in the pipeline.
This transformation from 'high-end, high-priced' to 'high-quality for a reasonable price' was managed commendably by my husband.
