Despite sporadic "Band-Aid fixes" that have kept it running, its outmoded facilities and dated amenities are long overdue for repair.
The Mets are only too eager to leave behind Shea's musty tunnels and outmoded facilities and move into their new digs at Citi Field, which has deluxe amenities like a new cold therapy pool, for starters.
One way it has done so is by enabling us to build 21st-century facilities – such as the one we meet in today, the Huang Engineering Center, and the other buildings in the new Science and Engineering Quad – as well as to update outmoded facilities, many more than 50 years old.
While this is excellent news and a tribute to the strong leadership of the medical center, we anticipate that there will be continued challenges and volatility in this area as we struggle with a competitive market and our own hurdles arising from inadequate or outmoded facilities.
With the demise of the Soviet Union, there are surplus and outmoded military facilities in New York and virtually every other state across America.
Major new projects, while still sometimes involving demolition of occupied housing or commercial structures, increasingly came to be built on vacant or "brownfields" sites such as disused railroad yards, outmoded port facilities, and abandoned factory districts.
After Soviet domination crumbled, and investors rushed in to privatize state industries, the desire for quick profits once again sidelined environmental considerations, experts say, as many outmoded industrial facilities were bought cheaply and resold with few, if any, improvements to environmental technology and safety.
The port, where facilities were outmoded and corruption endemic, began to convert its docks for containerized shipping, to dredge deeper channels, and to plan a direct rail connection between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
This season, the upgrade is in facilities, from an outmoded field house to a suite-ringed modern arena.
Political pressure makes it nearly impossible to shut down any of his company's 34,000 facilities, no matter how outmoded or little used.
There are no good schools here for our children, no good place to send the children for recreation, the water is arsenic [−contaminated], and the facilities here are mostly outmoded and need replacement.
