Sentence examples for sold development from inspiring English sources

Owners came and went, parcels were bought and sold, development battles were won and lost.

In recent years, he sold development rights to the land in 40-acre chunks.

In the case of the Jurgielewicz farm, the brothers sold development rights for their farm to Suffolk County and the town of Brookhaven for $5.6 million last May.

At Meyer's Farm in Woodbury, a 10-acre farm the Meyer family has farmed since 1924, Pete Meyer said much discussion lay ahead before the family sold development rights or entered into a government-sponsored preservation program.

It sold development rights to a handful of properties, leased others and padlocked the rest in an effort to narrow a local budget gap, while confronting nationwide trends like low attendance, a priest shortage, the rising cost of maintaining century-old buildings, and a new demand for churches in the far exurbs.

Since 1983, several farms across New Jersey have sold development rights to the county programs.

He wanted the ability to sell development rights from the rail yards to developers putting up residential buildings and office towers nearby.

A two-year effort by BART to transform a key transit hub by selling development rights has stalled as rival board members champion their favored developers.

More money was to come from selling development rights over the truck-marshaling yard.

Also, new incentives for selling development rights on agricultural land might be adopted, along with changes in clustering laws.

If farmers refuse to sell development rights, there really isn't much left to a farmland preservation program".