Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employment agency reported a 20% decrease in applications. Real estate brokers are getting fewer weekend browsers. News of births, marriages and deaths is hard to find. Retail businesses, caught without a window for their ads, have experienced a dramatic drop in trade. "It's murder," complains one shopper downtown. "You can't tell where the sales...
...confined to the U.S. In England, the average price of a lot has doubled in two years. The cost of raw acreage outside Munich has risen nine hundredfold since the early 1950s. Urban real estate in Japan shot up 30% last year alone, and a square foot in downtown Tokyo now costs more than...
...Boston, downtown $60-$70 per sq. ft. Atlanta, Peachtree Center $200 per sq. ft. Honolulu, downtown $60-$70 per sq. ft. Manhattan, midtown $200 per sq. ft. Miami Beach area, zoned for high rises $450,000 per acre* Madison, Wis. on Lake Mendota $28,500 for 85 front feet Minneapolis, southern suburbs $11,000-$13,000 per ½ acre Kansas City, raw land in Platt County, north of Kansas City $1,500-$2,500 per acre Providence, R.I., suburb of Glocester $2,500-$4000 per acre Dallas-Fort Worth Airport vicinity $25,000 per acre Houston, raw industrial land...
...Diego, for example, the city under Republican Mayor Pete Wilson is using its zoning powers to restrict the amount of housing construction around the city's edges and to expand building in the downtown areas, where it is really needed...
BERNARD WEISSBOURD, 51, lawyer turned iconoclastic developer. President of Chicago-based firm, Metropolitan Structures, which has $3.5 billion of work in progress, most of it notable for design quality. Included are new towns near Aurora, Ill., and Montreal, redevelopment in downtown Baltimore and a billion-dollar apartment-office-store complex near Chicago's Loop. Delights in challenging accepted notions. Example: favors replacing homeowners' income tax deductions for mortgage interest payments - a "regressive subsidy," he says - with direct subsidies from Washington...