On June 3, the property's owner, Yin Hu of Wenzhou Realty LLC in Flushing, filed for a permit to build a six-story building with 45 apartments, commercial space and a community room at the site, but the Department of Buildings turned down the application, raising several zoning objections.
Daniel McLean, a Chicago developer known for building sometimes-controversial luxury housing in cities across the United States, is in contract to purchase the dilapidated five-tower building, which comes with a permit to build a 27-story structure on an adjoining empty lot.
Behind the curtain of secrecy, the two buildings here — and a third that Google has a permit to build — will probably house tens of thousands of inexpensive processors and disks, held together with Velcro tape in a Google practice that makes for easy swapping of components.
An investment group acquired property in central Houston near Rice University in 2007 and sought a permit to build a high rise in a mostly residential neighborhood that had no tall buildings in the area.
Muslims have not been denied a permit to build mosques there.
A permit to build a big new mosque in Marseilles has just been refused on technical grounds.
The state's Department of Environmental Conservation has recommended that American Marine Rail be granted a permit to build.
Russell K. Girling, the chief executive of TransCanada, the company seeking a permit to build the pipeline, said the project easily met Mr. Obama's criteria.
TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, said that it would quickly apply for a new permit to build along a similar route.
One developer, BrightSource Energy, received a permit to build on land that contained habitat for the desert tortoise, a threatened species.
The spokeswoman, Marybeth Ihle, said that "Law & Order" had had a filming permit for Friday morning but not a rigging permit to build the set beforehand.
