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...have control over our most valuable commodity: time. Sure, we complain about being busy, but that's pretty great as long as we get to choose when we do things. The truth is, my editor will never even call me. She'll just e-mail. Which is actually fine with me. There's plenty of video online of women in silver bodysuits...
...about a year now, we've been hearing that commercial real estate is the next shoe to drop, the next big financial debacle. And for about a year now, the oft-predicted crisis has stubbornly refused to materialize. It's not that everything's fine in the commercial real estate business. Everything's awful and will probably get more awful. But unlike 2008's Wall Street panic, this particular financial unraveling looks as if it will play out over a period of years, not weeks...
What to name this now passing decade? Why, it's obvious to me. The forgettables will do just fine. There is not much that I feel we should try to remember about it except to make sure there is no repeat...
There's a fine line between confidence and hubris, and it's easy to conclude that Dubai and its real estate developers crossed it when they planned the newly opened Burj Khalifa, which, at 2,717 ft. (828 m), is by far the tallest building in the world. Since the skyscraper was planned, the tiny emirate's go-go boom has stalled, and its real estate bubble popped. But there's another way to look at the Burj Khalifa--which you can do on a clear day from 60 miles (100 km) away. The building supplanted an unlovely tower...
According to the city's Web site, property owners are fined $50 for each day that their sidewalks remain uncleared. While we don’t know when the Lampoon was reported for the sidewalk violation, AccuWeather reports that the last snowfall of more than 0.1 inches in Cambridge occurred on Jan. 3, so the fine levied on the Lampoon may be quite hefty...