(Belcourt may be the tidiest construction site in town).
The authority began a "good neighbor" initiative this fall, meeting with store owners and community groups and pledging to tidy up construction sites, repair broken sidewalks and post signs for businesses whose sidewalk space has been gobbled up.
It's a tidy little construction, and convincing if you are dumb enough to believe that the economy has no momentum and direction, and was in fact, inert in its trendline on January 20 , 2009
At first, the space looks almost disappointingly normal, until you notice the heap of Snuffleupaguses piled on a desk, the hand-drawn Grovers in a hundred different poses pinned to a wall, and the tidy scraps of construction paper in every shade of yellow, as though waiting to be transformed into a papier-mâché Big Bird.
By the Seventies, following his compulsory service in the Israeli army, Tshuva became a contractor and later earned a tidy fortune in the construction boom that coincided with the influx of Soviet Jews to Israel during the 1980s and early 90's.
In spring 2011 this area of comfortable-looking contemporary houses surrounded by tidy landscaping was a construction zone as its storm sewers, most fewer than 20 years old, were ripped up and replaced with much larger pipes.
In 2007, she put everything she had into the construction of a tidy straw-bale home Mr. Sanders built for her on five acres.
During a tour of the property that included guest cottages, the art collection and archival material from the glory years, the bustle of construction and last-minute tidying-up suggested the imminence of the official opening.
Would it be more or less alarming to see it in the chaotic throes of construction rather than complete, all shiny and tidy?
