Sixth sentence: "I am going to bed early, for I must rise in the darkness and pursue immediately an exciting, overdue project".
"The Encyclopedia of Life is a fantastic and long overdue project," said Quentin D. Wheeler, the director of the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University.
The town's Board of Estimate and Taxation said several weeks ago that it needed more information before awarding any more money to the overdue project.
The Afghan workers who are still trying to carry out the N.S.P. complained of corruption, overdue project funds and unrealistic demands being placed upon them.
On July 25, the developer's lender, Arbor Realty Funding L.L.C., began a foreclosure action in State Supreme Court in Manhattan against the developer, James P. Kennelly, for failure to repay $70.4 million in overdue project loans.
Vivian Becker, executive director of the Pratt Area Community Council, a nonprofit community development group in Fort Greene, described the old armory as "a very visible and blighted building" and its renovation as "a long overdue project, which we support".
"We are confident that when the secretary balances Cape Wind's benefits of increased energy independence, the hundreds of new jobs created and the contribution it will make to preserving and enhancing the environment of the cape and island then he will move this long overdue project forward," he said.
But city officials said the long-overdue project should not be held back by the other concerns.
If Trump's grandiosity requires glitzy, Taj-like projects — a gilded W.P.A. — he could modernize the electrical grid, a colossal and long-overdue project.
