In a sign that there is still room for Newport to grow, it brushes up against a desolate industrial parcel that contains a cement plant.
"A developer has bought the adjacent industrial parcel, and I know he has discussed a development scheme for multiunit housing with Bloomfield officials," Mr. Conklin said.
It is basically the last great empty non-industrial parcel anywhere near the geographical center of Los Angeles (unless you count the Dodger Stadium parking lot, whose redevelopment can only be whispered about).
Also, the illegal but frequent practice of "midnight dumping" of hazardous wastes, as well as accidental spills, has contaminated thousands of industrial land parcels and continues to pose serious threats to public health and environmental quality.
The 40 acres in Matawan, not far from the borough's downtown, are laced with mostly old industrial buildings and vacant parcels that double as parking lots.
The composition of the districts vary from residential near the city center, with a combination of multi-story apartment buildings and individual houses on small parcels, to industrial and agricultural at the city edges.
She added that the area's farmers, many from families who settled here 200 or 300 years ago, were unusually reluctant to sell; it took her 11 years to persuade one to part with a parcel for an industrial park at an interchange.
In Fig. 3, the example of a Census block group that contains residential, industrial, and commercial zones, multiple land parcels, building footprints, and raster grids is illustrated.
It was united by an urgent concern with time — in particular with the way time is parceled out in modern industrial societies.
Last year, America Online opened a technology center in a 220,000-square-foot industrial building on a 25-acre parcel next to the Manassas National Battlefield in Prince William County.
