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India Today
24-06-2025
- Business
- India Today
Mumbai's Kamathipura poised for redevelopment: Why residents are excited
The decks have been cleared for the largest such cluster redevelopment project in Mumbai with the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) floating tenders for the redevelopment of Kamathipura in south Mumbai. The MHADA is looking at appointing a construction and development agency for the will cover around 943 cessed buildings (those that pay a repair cess to MHADA), and 350 non-cessed buildings, 14 religious places and two schools run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Many of these buildings are over a century old and, hence, in a dilapidated condition. Put together, 9,761 tenants, including 8,385 residential and 1,376 commercial, will be covered. This also includes 1,760 landlord crumbling buildings in the 15 lanes that will be reconstructed include houses that measure around 100-150 square feet. The smallest tenements are just 60 sq ft, forcing many people to sleep on the roads at night. It is not uncommon to find even more than one family living in a matchbox-sized room. Residents also complain that the floors of these buildings, which are built on lands reclaimed from swamps and marshes, are sinking. Now, the residents will get around 500 sq ft houses, and commercial units will be given structures of the same redevelopment will be done in an integrated manner under Regulation 33(9) of the Development Control Regulations by the Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board, which comes under MHADA. The successful bidder will receive around 567,000 sq metres of development rights; a housing stock of approximately 4,500 new units is expected to be In December 2022, the state cabinet approved a proposal to appoint MHADA as the nodal agency for the 27.59 acres cluster redevelopment scheme, which will be the largest such Brownfield project in Mumbai and cover approximately 100,000 the 18th century, the Telugu-speaking 'Kamathi' workers from the dominions of the Nizam of Hyderabad came to Mumbai. They worked as construction labour and settled on a marshy plot of land in south Mumbai. In 1804, the government reclaimed this land to house these workers and thus, Kamathipura, or the 'area of the Kamathis', was Kamathis also staffed Mumbai's textile mills, integrated with the local Marathi culture, played a seminal role in the development and growth of Mahatma Jotiba Phule's Satyashodhak Samaj, and were part of the vanguard of the 'Samyukta Maharashtra' movement that ensured statehood for Maharashtra in 1960. In his seminal work on the role of the Telugus in the development of Mumbai, journalist and author Manohar Kadam refers to them as the sword arm of the Samyukta Maharashtra gradually, this area developed an unpalatable reputation of sorts due to the sex trade operating from some of its lanes. Mumbai's position as a port city and military centre, coupled with high numbers of migrant workers, led to a rise in this trade. In colonial Mumbai, apart from Indian sex workers, it was not uncommon to find European women who were engaged in the Ashwini Tambe mentions that in the colonial era, they lived principally in Kamathipura. This has also been depicted in Hindi films, most recently the Alia Bhatt-starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022). S.M. Edwardes, the former police commissioner of Bombay (1909-16), wrote that the arterial Cursetji Shuklaji Street, on Kamathipura's borders, was known as 'safed galli', or white lane, due to the European sex historian Deepak Rao noted that Shuklaji Street also had Chinese residents, Chinese social clubs and opium and gambling dens, and even a Chinese graveyard has left much of this past behind. It is now a market for textiles, electronic goods and recycled scrap, and the sex trade is taking its last gasps. But the stereotypes continue to persist, much to the chagrin of residents. This also overshadows the larger contribution of Kamathipura to contemporary instance, young Ambedkarites such as Namdeo Dhasal and fellow poet J.V. Pawar, who stayed at 'Vaakdi Chawl' at Siddharthnagar in Kamathipura's lane number one, birthed the Dalit Panther movement on May 29, 1972, to protest against the caste Vishal Yelle, a Kamathipura resident and general practitioner, welcomed the redevelopment plan. 'Now that the tender has been floated, we are more than halfway through. All residents, shopkeepers and landlords are eagerly awaiting the redevelopment for years,' he said many families who had given their dwellings on rent and shifted to larger houses in places like Virar were also expected to move back to Kamathipura once the area was redeveloped. 'Kamathipura has excellent rail connectivity due to its proximity to the Mumbai Central Railway Station, access to hospitals and playgrounds. The only issue that locals face is the small size of their houses,' he Patel, four-term Congress MLA from Mumbadevi, whose constituency covers Kamathipura, said the project had the potential to transform the lives of the people. 'MHADA must undertake this work in a transparent manner and ensure that it is completed within a period of five to seven years,' he say the redevelopment will help change the way their working-class locality is perceived by the society at large and boost their prospects in terms of jobs, marriage proposals and even loans and credit cards. This is regardless of the dwindling presence of the 'red-light' area in Kamathipura. Many brothel owners have sold or rented their premises to traders and manufacturers of goods like bags and jeans, and many women involved in the sex trade have shifted to the distant suburbs. Some of those who ply their trade stay in parts of the eastern suburbs and beyond and travel here for to India Today Magazine- Ends
New York Times
22-06-2025
- Health
- New York Times
‘I Feel Like I've Been Lied To': When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
He was a chiropractor by training, but in a remote part of West Texas with limited medical care, Kiley Timmons had become a first stop for whatever hurt. Ear infections. Labor pains. Oil workers who arrived with broken ribs and farmers with bulging discs. For more than a decade, Kiley, 48, had seen 20 patients each day at his small clinic located between a church and a gas station in Brownfield, population 8,500. He treated what he could, referred others to physicians and prayed over the rest. It wasn't until early this spring that he started to notice something unfamiliar coming through the door: aches that lingered, fevers that wouldn't break, discolored patches of skin that didn't make sense. At first, he blamed it on a bad flu season, but the symptoms stuck around and then multiplied. By late March, a third of his patients were telling him about relatives who couldn't breathe. And then Kiley started coughing, too. His wife, Carrollyn, had recently tested positive for Covid, but her symptoms eased as Kiley's intensified. He went to a doctor at the beginning of April for a viral panel, but every result came back negative. The doctor decided to test for the remote possibility of measles, since there was a large outbreak spreading through a Mennonite community 40 miles away, but Kiley was vaccinated. 'I feel like I'm dying,' Kiley texted a friend. He couldn't hold down food or water. He had already lost 10 pounds. His chest went numb, and his arms began to tingle. His oxygen was dropping dangerously low when he finally got the results. 'Positive for measles,' he wrote to his sister, in mid-April. 'Just miserable. I can't believe this.' Twenty-five years after measles was officially declared eliminated from the United States, this spring marked a harrowing time of rediscovery. A cluster of cases that began at a Mennonite church in West Texas expanded into one of the largest outbreaks in a generation, spreading through communities with declining vaccination rates as three people died and dozens more were hospitalized from Mexico to North Dakota. Public health officials tracked about 1,200 confirmed cases and countless exposures across more than 30 states. People who were contagious with measles boarded domestic flights, shopped at Walmart, played tuba in a town parade and toured the Mall of America. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'Aggressive' timeline revealed to build pro soccer stadium in Detroit by 2027
The Detroit City FC professional soccer club intends to start demolishing the old Southwest Detroit Hospital in July so that it can finish building a 15,000-capacity soccer stadium on the site by spring 2027. Two of the club's co-founders shared this schedule plan and other previously unreported details on the project during a Tuesday night, May 27, meeting of the Corktown Business Association. Club co-founder Sean Mann described the schedule, which calls for an early 2026 start to vertical construction, as an "aggressive timeline," but one necessary to get the stadium finished in time. The project also includes a large multilevel parking deck to go near the future stadium. "The goal is to get this done by the spring of '27," Mann said at the meeting, held at the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Detroit. He and fellow soccer club co-founder Todd Kropp said that this summer they plan to reveal final renderings for the stadium as well as the venue's official name. The new and privately financed soccer stadium will have a 15,000-person capacity, Mann said, or more than double the 7,200-person capacity of Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck, where the team now plays. Detroit City FC has acquired about 17 acres for the stadium project, which is centered on what is currently the abandoned Southwest Detroit Hospital at 2401 20th St., near Detroit's Corktown and Mexicantown neighborhoods. The club officials said the basement of the 1974 hospital building right now is flooded with 1.5 million to 2 million gallons of water, a situation similar to what Ford Motor Co. faced when it began rehabbing Michigan Central Station in 2018. More: Demolition of empty Detroit hospital for future soccer stadium could start this summer They plan to begin filtering and draining the hospital basement soon, the club officials said, probably starting next week. Demolition of the hospital then could begin in July and end sometime this summer. Detroit City Council this month approved a $5.9 million Brownfield plan that would gradually reimburse Detroit City FC for the hospital's demolition costs over a period of 21 years. So far, that is the only public subsidy requested for the stadium project. The Brownfield plan is still subject to approval of the Michigan Strategic Fund. Mann said the final to-be-revealed stadium plans will also feature some commercial space, "so 20th Street is not a dead zone." Contact JC Reindl: 313-378-5460 or jcreindl@ Follow him on X @JCReindl This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: 'Aggressive' timeline revealed for pro soccer stadium in Detroit Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Time of India
22-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Muoro receives $3.2 million grant from Brownfield Asset Advisory for GCC expansion
NEW DELHI Muoro , an AI-powered engineering tech enabler, has partnered with Brownfield Asset Advisory to launch turnkey solution for global capability centers (GCCs). Brownfield has extended a $3.2 million grant to Muoro to fast-track the development of GCCs and Centres of Excellence (COEs) in tier-II cities and North India. Brownfield has extended a $3.2 million grant to Muoro to fast-track the development of GCCs and Centres of Excellence (COEs) in tier-II cities and North India. "India's GCC market is expected to reach $95–110 billion by 2030. With Brownfield, we're bringing a bold new approach that delivers fully operational engineering centers in as little as 4-8 weeks. This allows enterprises to lower the cost of dedicated teams and redirect that capital into AI and innovation," said Vyom Bhardwaj , founder and CEO, Muoro. The company will integrate infrastructure, talent, compliance and execution under a single framework to help multinational companies set up product and engineering cost-effectively and with greater operational control.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
EPA funds $1.5M for Rockford Armory cleanup for new artists' studio
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $1.5 million grant to clean up the contaminated former Rockford Armory so that it can be repurposed as a live-work space for local artists. The funding comes from $267 million in federal grants to clean up Brownfields, or abandoned and toxic sites. The Armory building is currently contaminated with metals and inorganic materials, the EPA said. 'The $267 million in Brownfield grants will transform contaminated properties into valuable spaces for businesses and housing, creating new opportunities that strengthen local economies and directly benefit American families,' said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. 'EPA's Brownfields program demonstrates how environmental stewardship and economic prosperity complement each other. Under President Trump's leadership, EPA is Powering the Great American Comeback, ensuring our nation has the cleanest air, land, and water while supporting sustainable growth and fiscal responsibility.' The Rockford Area Arts Council, which purchased the former Rockford Armory, at 605 N. Main Street, from the city , plans to partner with the Discovery Center Museum to have convert the building into a rehearsal, gallery, and living space for artists. Built-in 1934, The Armory, at 605 N. Main Street, served as the headquarters for the Illinois National Guard for 60 years, and became a music venue in the 1970s, hosting performances by acts such as KISS, ZZ Top, REO Speedwagon, Black Sabbath, Barry Manilow, Henry Mancini, Cheap Trick, Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Fleetwood Mac. In 1989, the stone art deco building received upgrades to house the 404th Chemical Brigade, which stayed housed there until 1993. In 2000, the building was placed under landmark status on the National Register of Historic Places. The building, which has sat vacant for decades, was donated to the City in 2006. In addition, the EPA awarded $500,000 to the City of Rockford to conduct environmental assessments of the Keith Creek Floodway Area and South Main Street Corridor, and another $650,000 for cleanup of the former Rockford Watch factory, Essex Wire site, and South Main Street Railyards. Boone County also received $500,000 to do environmental site assessments of the Village of Garden Prairie and the southeast portion of the City of Belvidere. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
