What the camera doesn't reveal are the enormous shantytowns hidden behind those glistening towers, waiting to be redeveloped all over again.
The remnants turned to the west, moving over Mozambique without redeveloping.
In 2002, the hotel was taken over by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and redeveloped into a 261-room establishment with high-end amenities galore.
The Port Authority has already spent about $50 million on improvements at Stewart and, the study said, plans to spend as much as $450 million more redeveloping Stewart over the next 15 years.
Success on the pitch led to further investment in the infrastructure, with the club spending over £22 million on redeveloping both North and South stands, resulting in a current capacity of 30,311.
To the extent that the March 21 ceremony retiring the tattered American flag was unusual, it had to do with a dispute that had played out over the past year, in which the city and local veterans clashed over the best plan for redeveloping the armory site.
Strong thunderstorms redeveloped over the circulation, and Allison strengthened into a subtropical storm over southeastern Louisiana.
Over the years, government efforts at redeveloping the island, long viewed as a rough, underused gem in New York Harbor, have been frustrated by jurisdictional battles, lack of money and unique development constraints.
A similar debate is raging over how to redevelop the eastern waterfront.
Amsterdam's Eastern Harbor Docklands area, or New East, has been radically redeveloped over the last 15 years into a showcase for innovative modern architecture and urban planning.
