In recent months, the developers have also come up with a tentative alternative plan for a larger, more ambitious overhaul of the surrounding neighborhood.

The school system has begun the most ambitious overhaul in its nearly 200-year history.

The ambitious overhaul, which includes the namesake flagship chain, is timed to coincide with the important back-to-school shopping season.

Indeed, her experience with health-care reform helped teach her that most people prefer incremental change to ambitious overhauls.

But an ambitious overhaul of the nation's welfare system to move people from the dole to jobs has been approved only in the House.

But the Army has the largest share of the changes and the most ambitious overhaul under way.

President Bush's new budget calls for the most ambitious overhaul of government priorities that any president has proposed in decades.

To that end, Mr. Seidenberg has embarked on an ambitious and risky corporate overhaul.

And taken together, we're proposing the most ambitious overhaul of the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression.

The redevelopment was announced in 1999 as an ambitious $1.5 billion overhaul of the complex, to which Mr. Bloomberg donated $15 million before becoming mayor.