Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manage 82 units in the Hunter's Point housing project. The developer sets the rents, with housing authority approval, but the apartments must go to low-income tenants. The city strictly enforces an innovative construction policy. Before a developer can get a permit to build a new downtown office building, he must agree to put up new housing or pay a fee that is earmarked for that purpose. Of the $20 million collected since 1981, when the program started, $3 million has been used to renovate two public housing projects. To reduce vandalism and rapid turn over, New York...
Twice a day, the line forms outside a small white building in downtown Nassau. Holding umbrellas to shade themselves from the warm January sun, citizens chat about the proceedings they have been following. "You keep hearing rumors, so there must be something to it," says a middle-aged man. Volunteers a woman who sells straw hats at the open-air market: "Everything is true; the Prime Minister is through...
...scene was reminiscent of an unemployment office. But the thousands of grim-faced men and women who lined up in the office of the Massachusetts revenue department in downtown Boston last week were there to give money, not take it. Marveled one tax examiner: "It's the first time I've seen taxpayers storming the doors of the revenue department...
Relying on updated versions of traditional trolleys is not limited to older cities. In Oregon, Portland's 15-mile light-rail line linking the city's downtown core to the fast-growing suburb of Gresham is expected to be ready for riding in 1985. The Federal Government has funded $300 million of the project's $310 million capital costs, thanks in large measure to the lobbying efforts of Neil Goldschmidt, former Portland mayor and Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Despite Washington's munificence, Portland, with an unpopular mass-transit tax on employers and a noisy...
...transit projects are on track, however. The initial elevenmile stretch of Metrorail, Miami's elevated railway, was scheduled to open in time to whisk Christmas shoppers to downtown Miami. Now the big day has been postponed until spring. Two federal investigative teams turned up substandard construction work in the nearly $1 billion system, which is almost 70% funded by Washington. Because of a lengthy strike at the supplier, the Budd Co., only 20 of Metrorail's planned fleet of 136 cars are ready for service. "We're not going to accept this thing until...