and how notice is given; the rules governing sponsors and how many seats they may be allotted on the board of directors; when a special meeting can be called; the specific procedures for amending the bylaws; the
Because the co-op is now more than 40 years old, there have by necessity been some major capital improvement projects. In the mid-1990s, for example, the buildings' windows were all replaced. This project, says Mankoff, cost about $11 million. More recently, about a year ago, Penn South...
Bloomberg explains that under the new plan, there will be four new marine waste transfer stations built and up to five rail waste transfer stations activated. “This will allow us to transport nearly all of the city’s residential garbage, and more of our commercial garbage, by barge or rail...
The recommendation to require cats to be registered and vaccinated at an average cost of about $25 was based on public safety concerns. It would have generated about $500,000 in additional revenue above costs for the city if it had been in place during the past three years, assuming about...
Residential buildings emit the majority of building emissions. For the second part of our Deep Dialogue, continuing from July 25, we discuss our view of approaches to meet the emissions reduction targets for these buildings and review the building emission reduction scenarios identified by the adminis...
As an economist turned residential and industrial builder in Dallas in the late fifties, Nasher realized the city would soon spill over into suburbia. Determined to draw the community in his direction, Nasher built NorthPark mall “in a cotton field” in 1964. The mall has spawned other real ...
“You have more control over the environment and transfer of air.” With the more airtight construction of post-war residential buildings, “the air is more stagnant,” she says. “The building’s ventilation acts as the lungs of the building. If it’s not breathing properly, we have a ...
The falling costs of battery storage are increasing the likelihood that markets will be able to store low cost electricity from renewable sources for use at times when they would normally have had to resort to higher priced sources. Solar production has been doubling roughly every two years so,...
there is plenty of time for energy savings to surpass the extra upfront expenditures, which in any case have plummeted in the past decade. The cost of solar power isway down, and, according to DiNola, the necessary energy efficiency “doesn’t require bleeding-edge technology. Y...
“Since 2010, the cost of energy has dropped by 82% for photovoltaic solar, by 47% for concentrated solar energy (CSP), by 39% for onshore wind and by 29% for wind offshore.” Those remarkable price falls are quoted by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) in its Renewable...