Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well come on babe let's get platonic Let's sit down and have a chat We'll go do downtown and get some coffee...
Japanese investors are hungry for property because it is very expensive in their own country. The average cost of leasing commercial real estate in Tokyo's saturated downtown market is now more than 20 times as high as it is in New York City, and 30 times as high as in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the overbuilt American skyline beckons...
Shuwa Investments, a family-owned real estate developer, may be America's largest Japanese landlord. The company made headlines last summer when it bought ARCO Plaza, a prime, 2.4 million-sq.-ft. piece of downtown Los Angeles, for $620 million, in the biggest real estate megadeal in California history. Since September 1985, Shuwa has spent $2 billion to acquire some 12 million sq. ft. of property in the U.S., including two buildings in Century City, Calif., worth $235 million, Chase Plaza in downtown Los Angeles ($103 million) and the ABC tower in Manhattan ($175 million...
...Save Beirut from this inferno," pleaded Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami. Tank and artillery fire on downtown streets prevented fire trucks from reaching dozens of burning buildings in the Hamra district, which includes the Commodore and the American University of Beirut. West Beirut's once fashionable main thoroughfare, Rue Hamra, where the city's upper crust could buy anything from French perfume to Cuban cigars, was reduced to a smoke- filled war zone. Declared a retired Lebanese Army colonel: "It is a fight to the finish...
...downtown Boston store grossed over $1 million last Monday in a price-slashing extravaganza which included furs, diamonds, oriental rugs and high fashion clothing from some of Boston's most prestigious stores, says advertising copy chief Maria J. DiChiaria...