Buildings that have outlived their usefulness as offices are beingsuccessfully converted into condominiums and apartments from coast to coast.Old structures that once housed workers are now becoming housing for peoplewho work nearby.
From Medrooms To Boardrooms
One example in lower Manhattan is 25 Broad St., the formerheadquarters of the financial services company Paine Webber. The historic20-story building, constructed in 1898, will have 345 apartments, accordingto the property's developer Crescent Heights Investments of New York.Company president Bruce Menin says the building's T-shaped layoutpermitted comfortably sized and shaped apartments, instead of the longbowling alley-style units common in many converted lofts. Menin adds that thebuilding's lobby is "unreproducible" with its gilded columnsand white Italian marble floor, features that appeal to residents. Monthlyrents for the two- and three-bedroom apartments range from $1,800 to $4,000.
"The costs are such that rental doesn't work," saysdeveloper Rick Holliday. "You have to sell them, but financing isdifficult." Other developers say financing can be difficult to obtainbecause lenders are sometimes unfamiliar with the demands of large renovationprojects. Others tend to shy away from rehabs because the "unknown"factor - not knowing what you will discover when you open the walls - cansometimes raise project costs substantially.
Chicagoan Katz says he has still to sell the idea of downtown livingto prospective buyers despite extensive residential development and retaildowntown. He explains that many of the restaurants and retail shops in thearea are "buried" in other office buildings. As proof of theneighborhood's viability, Katz has his sales people conduct a scavengerhunt. Everything from a shoe shine to a fortune cookie can be found nearby.He says: "The neighborhood is wonderful, but people don't know itexists."
The conversion took about one year to complete. The building now has106 one- and two-bedroom apartments. Sixty percent of those are market-rateunits, with rents from $720 to $2,000. Monthly rents on the affordable unitsrange from $450 to $600.
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While older office buildings are often redeveloped into apartments, it is almost impossible to reverse the process, stoking concerns that Melbourne could go from a doughnut city to a city of dormitories, devoid of major business.
No one is who they seem in Sharper, a neo-noir thriller of secrets and lies, set amongst New York City's bedrooms, barrooms and boardrooms. Characters compete for riches and power in a high stakes game of ambition, greed, lust and jealousy that will keep audiences guessing until the final moment.
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His crime boiled down to impolite utterances in the presence of an esteemed guest, himself a Minister of Government! I was a second year English Honours student then, and found"}Nathaniel Manheru
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Gaily flip-flopping Let us take this sex puzzle a little further. Apart from baffling Zimbabweans, the man simply did not make sense to himself, especially when read against his past pronouncements on the same. In March 2010, he had decried this monstrosity of homosexuality, in the process taking the political risk of sounding like Robert Mugabe, his political foil and adversary.
A year and months later, the man had already morphed. Like a unique, overgrown pupa, he needed the cold British milieu and season to cast off his old rind, to slough off his puparium. I have always thought pupas do not slough off their hard shell in inclement weather, and away from their habitat? Not this one, apparently. Tsvangirai knowingly went against the national sentiment on this touchy subject, which to me suggests that whatever he hoped to wring out of needy, parsimonious Britain, must have been worth the risk of the inevitable national revilement sure to follow. Or is the story true? That the Prime Minister has been compromised and is in the palms of the gay lobby?
When a cripple climbsRealising where he had landed himself into, our man retreated, nay, recoiled, so ingloriously from his belief. He went to Parliament, all in the hope of matching one Zimbabwean Prime Minister I know from our first governing days into independence, a man whose scheduled appearance in Parliament was always a spectacular, swelling must-watch, both by the staggering depth of responses, and by manner and grace of presentation.
Are we wrong to expect a bit of profound and thoughtful dignity from the holder of the Office of PM, an incumbent who must not behave like an upset, shunned but causeless village woman shouting by the communal well?
Tethering his point to sexuality, why would he appeal to the court of public opinion on a matter otherwise so personal and so private, had it not been for his indiscretion? Surely before these utterances, we all gave him the benefit of straightness, which benefit he has voluntarily withdrawn from himself? Tethering his point to Methodism, in supporting gays, was he espousing the position of his Church? Does his own children, grandsons/-daughters or family understand this queer position he wants inserted into our constitution?
Having run riot in our governmental boardrooms, the British and their imperialist allies now seek a place and say in our bedrooms. And our Prime Minister obliges, indeed dignifies such gross intrusion in our bedroom as a people, parroting its prescriptions even? What personal practice is he prescribing to our children through such pronouncements. And this strange attempt to quote scriptures in self-defence? Is that God-fearing? One appreciates thoughtful hypocrisy. Not this!
From bedrooms in China to boardrooms in Geneva, people offered their views on how to protect the world against future pandemics during the second round of public hearings called by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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It's a silly fear, though; no one judges bands by the size of the garage from which they emerged. The more beat-up the work space, the more inspirational the success stories. You can do great work anywhere, even if you're keeping bees, putting in earplugs to drown out the sound of the chickens, or making sure your keyboard has no visible letters.
Our current office is actually down the hall from the one in which we developed most of Jamestown. We kept a lot from the the old office when we moved, but also made a fair number of changes. For example. we still use the same long desk, but now it's up against a wall instead of down the middle of the room. In the old office, our workstations sat on both sides of the middle desk and the desk often doubled as a conference table. Most of our meetings happened with a slight turn from sitting at a workstation to engaging in a discussion. This was fantastic for communication and did much to facilitate collaboration. That said, that setup still had problems. For example, in this configuration it was very easy to distract someone else by making movements in their peripheral vision, such as stretching, scratching, or dancing to ABBA. We now use a proper conference table for meetings. It has helped with the distraction, if not with the ABBA.
If you were wondering how a small developer ended up in a swanky building with an iconic work of modern art in front of it, the picture above might offer some explanation. We sublet our offices from a small Philadelphia law firm with generous hearts and a reasonable tolerance for the strange habits of the typical game developer. Being in a sub-office has many advantages, such as access to a kitchen and conference room, good location, and lawyers on hand, with only a few disadvantages... like feelings of guilt when we walk through the kitchen without shoes. 2ff7e9595c
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