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Pitkin says city officials and developers spent much of the past three years searching for prospective tenants. Their efforts paid off when a Cape Cod developer agreed to lease the building and find businesses to fill it, he says...
...have always had a romantic vision of Cape Cod. Two summers ago I went there for the first time with a friend. I tasted the clams overboiled in sandy water, saw the rickety ghettos along Route 6 and came upon miles of coarse, deserted dunes with harsh twilight sandstorms. It was not my idealization of the Cape. It should have been a place of carefree beauty, of deck shoes and seagulls, of dinghies and pale yellow beach houses...
...spent the whole day looking for this Cape Cod, but couldn't find it anywhere. I saw it only on our way back, as we stopped alongside the road for a break. It was on the seashore off the roadside, at twilight. The beach was a dark brushed gold, separated from the dune by tufts of tall, wild green reeds. The beach had a delicate bulge like a person's belly, which sunk into a gently rippled, calm blue ocean The ocean was glazed with pink from the clouds...
...baseball cap that made her look like a little boy. She had her hands in her pocket, meditatively. A noblelooking golden retriever lay on the sand beside her with its back straightened and its head perked up, staring into the ocean like its owner. This is the Cape Cod I have always remembered; it was serene and sublime. There is a feeling about the place that anticipates seclusion with a comfortable other...
...cliched solace given disappointed lovers is no longer true: there are not plenty of other fish in the sea. Aggressive fleets have forced 13 of the world's 17 major fisheries to the verge of collapse. Canada banned cod fishing on the Atlantic's Grand Banks this year, and the U.S. followed with an order putting large areas of New England's Georges Bank out of bounds...