The program offers about $4 billion a year in grants to cities and states, letting them use the money for a wide variety of activities like laying sidewalks, building schools, razing slums and creating jobs.

During this stage of his early career he also held several odd jobs such as waiting tables, laying concrete sidewalks and driveways and landscaping.

The company surveyed the land, built streets and sewers, laid sidewalks and brought electricity and water to the area.

Now there are new buildings, new banks, trendy new clothes and shoe shops, a new tram line has been laid, new sidewalks.

Either way, up the street lay empty sidewalks and shadows under trees.

It spent lavishly on city improvements, paving streets, laying sidewalks and digging sewers from Midtown to Harlem.

In 1870 a portion of Kenwood was annexed to Albany and the city was involved in a lawsuit (Harriet M. Elmendorf v. The City of Albany) over its right to lay sidewalks along the turnpike (technically private property) and to levy an assessment upon property in order to cover the cost of the sidewalk.

In the 1880s, the Laurel Hill Association helped create Stockbridge's reputation as an attractive village by managing weeds, laying sidewalks, installing lamps, planting trees and helping construct the local library.

So instead of working on oil rigs, as many young Calgary men do nowadays, he spent time laying concrete sidewalks with his father, Phil, a part-time masonry contractor who also wrestled on the professional circuit under the name "Killer Klein."