It is hoped this will kickstart development in a region where the youth in many communities resort to sabotaging oil infrastructure and illegally refining diesel.
Anthony Coles, a former New York City deputy mayor for planning, education and cultural affairs, argues that a new stadium on the West Side of Manhattan would "kickstart development" in the area (letter, Dec. 28).
Why in the world would New York turn down an $800 million investment by the Jets, which can also kickstart development in an area of the city that now houses only rail yards and the lonely Javits Center?
The neglected, historically white neighbourhoods by the trail had already started to come up – evidenced by the conversion of the old Ford Factory into loft apartments – but the BeltLine really kickstarted development.
At Nesta we're running a Dynamic Demand challenge prize to kickstart development of products that move local electricity demand to off-peak times or make better use of renewable energy generation.
The new Istanbul airport, together with a third bridge across the Bosphorus completed in 2016 (substantially over budget) and ambitious plans for an Istanbul canal to rival those in Panama and Suez, are supposed to kickstart development north of the existing city, which is already home to at least 15 million people.
The project aims to kickstart development in the peninsula through a boost to tourism, but it came under criticism from environmentalists and Maya rights campaigners even before it was launched in December.
Providing a one-off upfront capital investment to kickstart developments that are stalled due to cash flow problems or lack of confidence.
The site of a zinc oxide factory earmarked for housing and business 10 years ago has been bought by a council for £2m to help kickstart development.
Mike Horne, Tube writer and former TFL employee Hendon Central Distinguishing features: This 1924 station by Stanley Heaps was intended to kickstart the development of the area and is integrated into the shops either side of it.
He argued that a return to the drachma, the former national currency, would not only reinvigorate exports but kickstart the development, employment and productivity the country's shattered economy needed.
