Orange County is a county located in the Central Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2010 census, the population was 33,481. Its county seat is Orange.
Freetown is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,870 at the 2010 census.
Middleborough is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 23,116 at the 2010 census.
Dover is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 8,699 at the 2010 census. The town was named after Dover in England, the home town of an early settler.
The Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) is a nonprofit corporation and public-private agency contracted by the City of Baltimore to promote economic development.
A town meeting is a form of direct democracy in which most or all of the members of a community come together to legislate policy and budgets for local government. It is a town- or city-level meeting in which decisions are made, in contrast with town hall meetings held by state and national politicians to answer questions from their constituents, which have no decision-making power.
Tax increment financing (TIF) is a public financing method that is used as a subsidy for redevelopment, infrastructure, and other community-improvement projects in many countries, including the United States. The original intent of a TIF program is to stimulate private investment with a blighted area that has been designated to be in need of economic revitalization. Similar or related value capture strategies are used around the world.
Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states a governmental structure known as the New England town. Only the southeastern third of the state has functioning county governments; in western, central, and northeastern Massachusetts, traditional county-level government was eliminated in the late 1990s. Generally speaking, there are four kinds of public school districts in Massachusetts: local schools, regional schools, vocational/technical schools, and charter schools.
Joseph Mario Moreno was Commissioner for the 7th district of Cook County, Illinois from 1994 until 2010.
Skyland is a neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. It is bounded by Good Hope Road to the northeast, Alabama Avenue to the southeast, and Fort Stanton Park to the south and west. Also see article on Anacostia.
Middleborough/Lakeville is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Lakeville, Massachusetts, just south of the Middleborough border. It is the southern terminus of the Middleborough/Lakeville Line; it also serves seasonal CapeFlyer service. Middleborough/Lakeville has a single full-length high-level platform serving the line's single track.
The Dalidio Ranch Project refers to a development project proposal most recently known as Measure J, which was voted on by the citizens of San Luis Obispo County, California, on the November 7, 2006, ballot. The parcel proposed for the development project is a 131-acre (53 ha) parcel of farmland located adjacent to San Luis Obispo, California, west of U.S. Route 101, and east of Madonna Road. The parcel is south of the Promenade Shopping Center and bordered by Prefumo Creek. The project proposed would include "a 13-acre (5.3 ha) organic farm, a seven-day-a-week farmers' market, a monarch butterfly preserve visible from a grove of eucalyptus trees, a drive-through pharmacy, retail development featuring walkways and ornate fountains, and 60 units of workforce housing," and the construction of an overpass connecting U.S. Route 101 and Prado Road, according to an article by New Times San Luis Obispo. Ernie Dalidio was the former owner of Dalidio Ranch, and actively petitioned for the city annexation of the land starting in 1991; he sold the property in 2013.
Plymouth Rock Studios was a proposed film and television production studio in Massachusetts. The studio had held a now-expired option to buy Waverly Oaks Golf Club in Plymouth as the site for the $650 million, 1,260,000-square-foot (117,000 m2) development originally slated to be complete in 2010. The proposal included fourteen sound stages 10-acre (40,000 m2) back lots, a multipurpose theater, a hotel and offices. The original proposed location for the studio complex was located in South Plymouth, near the town lines of Bourne and Wareham, but was rejected because of faulty land titles.
Iskandar Malaysia, formerly known as Iskandar Development Region and South Johor Economic Region (SJER), is the main southern development corridor in Johor, Malaysia. It was established on 8 November 2006.
Canadian Motor Speedway is a motorsports park, currently stuck in development hell, that was planned to be built in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. The development would be located on an 821 acres adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Way highway. It consists of a 1.2 kilometre progressive bank oval and 3.2 kilometre (2 mile) road course. With 65,000 seats and 40 suites, Canadian Motor Speedway would be the largest speedway in Canada and the second-largest sporting venue, in terms of seating capacity, in the country. Its location provides it with a large market area, being 6.4 kilometres (4 miles) from the Canada/USA border with Buffalo, N.Y. and 17 kilometres (11 miles) from Niagara Falls.
The Maritime Industrial Zoning Overlay District (MIZOD) was created in Baltimore, Maryland in 2004 to preserve deepwater access for port and maritime industrial uses. As waterfront residential and commercial development encroached on maritime industrial uses within the city, waterfront industries were finding it harder to receive loans from banks to upgrade and expand their operations. MIZOD is a zoning district overlaid across existing industrial zones along the water to allow only industries that use or need deep water access. The Overlay district was set to expire in 2014, but was recently extended to expire in 2024.
Doctors Medical Center was an eight-story creekside hospital in San Pablo, California. It was the only cardiac/STEMI, stroke, and cancer center in Contra Costa County. The health facility once employed 1,100 people. The hospital has been described as the "backbone" of the community of 250,000 people between that is bordered by Vallejo to the north and Berkeley to the south. The West Contra Costa Healthcare District board voted on 26 March 2015 to close the facility in April. The hospital closed on April 21, 2015.
Marriott Marquis Washington, DC is a luxury hotel located on Massachusetts Avenue NW, in NW, Washington, D.C., United States. The hotel is connected to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center across 9th Street NW via an underground concourse.
Elmcrest Hospital, later St. Francis Care Behavioral Health, was a small psychiatric facility in Portland, Connecticut. Opened in 1942, the campus incorporated three historic mansions, including a childhood home of 1800s businesswoman Elizabeth Jarvis Colt. The facility was purchased by Saint Francis Hospital in 1997, and in 1998, the hospital underwent increased scrutiny when an 11-year-old patient died while being restrained by an employee. In 2003, inpatient services at the campus were discontinued, and patients were relocated to the Saint Francis Mount Sinai campus.
Since 2002, there have been various housing proposals for Blue Diamond Hill, located in rural Clark County, Nevada. The proposed site is located west of Las Vegas, near the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The Blue Diamond Mine has operated on the land since the 1920s, but the property otherwise remains vacant. Each of the proposed housing projects have received opposition from nearby residents and from environmentalists, citing concerns about the impact that such a project would have on the surrounding area.
