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...come to represent wretched excess. During the past five years, U.S. developers have constructed a breathtaking surplus of office towers, condominium complexes and hotels. In Los Angeles, a rusting, 17-story framework of steel girders on Wilshire Boulevard has stood idle for three years because of collapsed condo prices. Denver's tallest building, the 56-story Republic Plaza office tower, is only half rented despite such amenities as a concierge, an Italian-marble lobby, a car wash and computerized climate control. Florida's $197 million Le Pavillion hotel, part of a posh development called Miami Center, is usually only about...
...market: more than 16% of total space is empty, compared with 3.5% in 1980. The vacancy rate continues to rise, in part because the building of offices is running 50% ahead of the growth in white-collar employment. Among the first cities to be hit by the glut were Denver and Houston, where demand for office space collapsed because of the downturn in the oil and gas industry. Hapless developers wound up with rows of "see-through buildings," thus named because they have so few occupants and interior fixtures. The developers of Houston's 34-story Phoenix Tower, who were...
...Phoenix (24%), New Orleans (22.7%) and other Sunbelt cities, where the strong economic growth of recent years fanned real estate speculation. As soon as one city is glutted, developers move on to the next. Says Mack Taylor, an Atlanta developer: "When they realized the game was over in Denver and Houston, a lot of them came here...
...They expected a fuss, but they didn't think the issue was important enough for the size of the fuss we made," said Denver Psychologist Lenore Walker. She was one of seven feminist psychologists and psychiatrists who were invited to Manhattan last week, all expenses paid, to sit in on a closed meeting dealing with proposed revisions in psychiatry's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). DSM-III is of crucial importance to the profession. Its diagnoses are generally recognized by the courts, hospitals and insurance companies...
...film's opening credits give way to a wedding attended by normal, nerdy young Americans Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), the audience in Coconut Grove, Fla., flings rice gaily in the air. When the young lovers get stranded in the rain, regulars in Denver douse the front rows with squirt bottles. When Brad and Janet see "a light over at the Frankenstein place," hundreds of lighters, flashlights and one small '50s table lamp illuminate the Eighth Street Playhouse. In Dr. Frank's old dark house, where Brad and Janet are seduced in turn by the extraterrestrial...