Unlike many other cherished and long-delayed projects, it has succeeded in coming, almost alarmingly, to life.

But 83 percent of big companies said they had long-delayed information-technology projects that had to be done before long.

A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Columbus Center redevelopment plan in a ruling that may help the city move forward with the long-delayed project.

The developers of the Times Square Center office complex have raised the possibility of postponing the long-delayed project.

The halting process of making and then changing plans wastes time and money, authority officials said, and creates pressure to hurry up and finish long-delayed projects.

Long-sought, long-delayed projects languished on the drawing board.

After the 1985 water emergency, the suppliers and the state spent $200 million on an array of long-delayed projects to strengthen North Jersey's capacity to resist a drought.

That lingering mistrust underscores the standoff between the developer and the neighborhood over this controversial, long-delayed and often-changed project.

Today, those problems take only four hours a month of her time, so she is planning to finally tackle a long-delayed project to automate the company's four warehouses.

Still on the drawing board is "The Hellfire Club," a long-delayed project about a circle of 18th-century libertines whose debauchery brought down a British government.