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Tony Mazzo: Masterminding the Complex 30-ft Lift of a Broadway Theater in New York City

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When the project team for TSX Broadway—a partial demolition and significant renovation and rebuild of a theater district tower in New York City—wanted to perform a truly challenging feat of engineering, it called in Tony Mazzo at Urban Foundation/Engineering.

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

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Eleven million people in this country are paying more than half of their income for rent, and these are low-income people,” says Richard Burns, CEO of the NHP Foundation, a national not-for-profit provider of affordable housing. It gets worse. Housing is Fundamental “Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

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While cities occupy just three percent of global land area, by 2050 they will be home to two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants according to Gensler’s, 75 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to Gensler’s Aleksander Sasha Zeljic in a June 2018 interview with Architectural Products magazine.

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Learn About Construction – 10 Best Ways

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This way you don’t waste your time learning about how to build retail stores when you really want to build power plants. Hoists in New York city all land on the roadway with large temporary loading docks built for easy access – this was implemented on my last project.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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AUSTIN, DENVER, NEW YORK CITY HAVE TOP STARTUP ECOSYSTEMS. Austin, TX, Denver, CO and New York City topped our metro leaderboard for Startup Ecosystems. National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), managed by UCAR, is a National Science Foundation R&D Center (Boulder, CO).

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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In New York City, Long Island and Westchester County, businesses must be start-ups or high-tech companies. The crown jewel of the downtown development effort in Baton Rouge is IBM’s new 800-job technology center, a facility that will provide software development and software maintenance services to clients in the U.S.

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

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Taking advantage of that strong educational and training foundation is the new BRIDG (Building the Innovation Development Gap) facility at NeoCity in Osceola County. Situated in Upstate New York, Oswego County is located centrally to New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Toronto and Montreal.