NAILING down a site required reaching a consensus among the three villages that constitute First Mesa.
The site required that I register and select a password, which I immediately forgot.
Creating anything beyond a bare-bones Web site required programming skills and tech knowledge.
The days when creating a Web site required knowledge of hypertext markup language, or HTML, are long gone.
Even tutoring at a for-profit learning center or leading tours at a historic site required a master's.
Building on such a remote site required great ingenuity – here the timbers we brought in using the existing cable car instead of by not-so-eco helicopters.
Last year the site required the purchase of a Barbie MP3 player for access to certain content, an idea that has been abandoned.
However, he said, any billboard at the site required the approval of the Marriott Marquis management, which he said also objected to the bomb.
A deal allowing Mr. Trump to develop the site required him to turn over to the city 23 acres on the waterfront for park land and to pay for its maintenance.
The less stable soil of the current site required an additional $700,000 for metal pilings to shore up the foundation, said Stephen Pustola, an engineer and owner of the design firm.
The site required years of environmental remediation and was also subject to several competing visions for its future before the current plan began to take shape in the early 2000s.
