Articles related to "Land Value"

Commercial development threatens boater access to the waterfront. The Keep Our Waterfront Working Act is an effort to address this problem.

A wide-ranging survey of commercial life in Britain, from the Viking era, through to the sixteenth century.

Our enjoyment of boating depends on preserving ready and open access to the waterways. Access issues should be a concern for all boaters.

Founded by prospectors in 1915, Talkeetna is fabled to be the inspiration behind the 1990s television show "Northern Exposure."

If funded, a new plan to reforest large portions of the Appalachians will bring jobs, higher property values, cleaner air and water, and much needed forest habitat.

Cities are introducing alleyway housing as one of many strategies to augment housing choices and reduce the city's carbon footprint.

Moses Austin starts a colony in Spanish Missouri, then travels to Texas and obtains a Spanish land grant there.

America's most famous city, New York, is home to some of the world's best-known skyscrapers, many of which once held the title as world's tallest.

Vermont's Green Mountain National Forest was created in response to the catastrophic Great Flood of November 1927 that proved the urgent need for watershed protection.

New York's hundreds of famous and impressive skyscrapers, both historical and modern, combine to form the world's best-known skyline

Taxpayers are helping Major League Baseball and National Football League teams build multimillion-dollar sports stadiums across the country.

Beijing's hutongs (narrow lanes of traditional one-storey houses) are destinations for tourists, but now development threatens the lifestyle the historic areas represent.

Abraham Lincoln's first foray into politics featured a strict adherence to destructive Whig Party economic policies and minimal attention to the slavery issue.

In 1879, Spokane and Cheney, Washington, neighboring cummunities contended for the location of the county seat, using elections and the business end of a gun.

The Erickson's business lured individuals for loans to build condominium high-rises on Delmas and Fifth Street in San Jose, California.