Word: annexation
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Constitution Plaza has successfully reversed this desertion. Hartford's biggest retailer, G. Fox, added a $12 million annex to its store just across the street, and Korvette's decided to occupy a long-vacant store near by. The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., which had been planning to move to the sub urb of West Hartford, changed its mind and built a graceful, green-glass ship of a building, connected to the plaza by a bridge, that is the handsomest store that had just spent a million dollars on redecoration. But Wallace's plan was voted unanimously, and even though...
...anybody who has ever bought books at the beginning of a term can testify, the Coop was wise in its decision to build a bigger textbook annex. It was incredibly foolish, however, to believe that it could build an annex and then ignore the problems of bringing books into...
...proposed bridge." Dietz said, "will connect the Men's clothing department with the cashiers department in the new building. To get to the textbook annex a student will have to go up three stories on the elevator in the front of the department store, across the bridge, and down three stories." Illustrating his remarks, Dietz bobbed behind the podium. He closed with an original poem and retired with the applause of the crowd ringing in his ears...
Dietz has been attempting to get the Zoning Board of Appeals to revoke the building permit for the Coop's book annex, now under construction above the old textbook annex. If successful, he said he thought his candidates would find a better design for the annex and any further Coop construction...
...Coop, on the other hand, maintains that it does not intend to expand further once the textbook annex is completed, and says that radically modifying existing plans for the annex would be prohibitively expensive...