Environmental groups in Canada and the United States have supported the Nuu-chah-nulth land claim as a way to slow down commercial development in the area.
There are, of course, many other explanations for the slow pace of commercial development in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a community of about 140,000 people.
Though the communities of View Park, Windsor Hills and Ladera Heights are full of well-to-do shoppers and diners, residents say commercial development has been slow to come to nearby Crenshaw Boulevard.
Commercial development of scientifically developed products including commercial licences and spin off companies.
And a slew of recent commercial developments provide increasingly urbane alternatives.
"The city has done a lot of commercial development, but it's been slow to bring change to residential areas," he said.
Commercial development, an activity that has not slowed to a standstill as it did in the late 1980s and early 1990s, remains strong in some markets and property types.
Since then, they have successfully pressed Summit Ventures to slow residential construction, donate land for schools and begin the long-promised commercial development.
As these forests are felled for timber, agriculture, human settlements or commercial development, the world loses a vital component needed to slow, and ultimately reverse, global warming.
The recession slowed commercial real estate development everywhere, but it was particularly hard on Harlem, which had only recently begun to attract national retailers after decades of disinvestment.
We don't have commercial development.
