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In 2018 Greenwich council changed its opinion, and called for Morgan Stanley, current owner of Enderby Wharf, to implement a less polluting solution for the cruise terminal. Residents of the area proposed it should be "zero emissions", supporting ships able to use onshore electrical power without the need to run their engines while docked.
The East Greenwich Gas Works of the South Metropolitan Gas Company was the last gas works to be built in London, and the most modern. Originally manufacturing town gas from coal brought in by river and exporting coke and chemicals, the plant was adapted to produce gas from oil in the 1960s. Nothing remains of any of the gas holders; the last ...
Greenwich Powder Magazine (as it appeared in 1738) The peninsula was drained by Dutch engineers in the 16th century, allowing it to be used as pasture land. In the 17th century, Blackwall Point (the northern tip of the peninsula, opposite Blackwall) gained notoriety as a location where pirates' corpses were hung in cages as a deterrent to other would-be pirates.
Blue Harbour Group was founded in 2004 by Clifton Robbins, [4] also known as Cliff Robbins, a former partner at private equity giants KKR [5] and General Atlantic. [6]As of June 2019, the firm managed more than $2.2 billion in capital, [6] which it mainly invested from two funds, the long-short Blue Harbour Strategic Value Partners fund and the long-only Blue Harbour Active Ownership Partners ...
Blackwall Point Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the east side of the Greenwich Peninsula, in London.An early station from the 1890s was replaced in 1951 by a new station, which itself ceased operation in 1984.
Malkin is the founder of Merritt Parkway Conservancy, Greenwich Tree Conservancy and Greenwich Green & Clean, all non-profit organizations based in Connecticut. Malkin has served on 15 different committees at Harvard University, and Harvard's Indoor Athletic Building was renamed the Malkin Athletic Center in 1986 in honor of his $4M donation to ...
Potowomut (pot-uh-WAHM-ut [1]) is an isolated neighborhood and a peninsula in Warwick, Rhode Island. It is bordered by the Town of East Greenwich to the northwest, and by North Kingstown to the southeast. Greenwich Bay surrounds all other sides. Potowomut's name translates to "land of fires", the Narragansett Indian name for the neck of land.
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.Located in the Gold Coast along the Long Island Sound, it is 48 miles (77 km) northeast of New York City and is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region.