Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Project architects said they were careful to design a cafe that would maintain the public nature of the outdoor plaza...
...final design features nine sliding glass doors that will roll away in the summer to open onto the plaza. In response to popular demand, several chess board tables will be placed inside the greenhouse, Au Bon Pain officials said...
...then, Jimmie Walker -- you know, J.J. on Good Times? -- plays with our band." But, generally, Banks has kept his hometown in perspective. "It's a good place to lose money, and it never snows." Banks' father is a bellman at the Hacienda, his mother a housekeeper at the Union Plaza. "Everyone's dream here is the N.B.A.," he says, but a few have ended up at the M.G.M. Banks says, "It's my dream too," though he is preparing to fall back on the city's second leading industry, social work...
...commission members flew off one Wednesday to Paris and interviewed Arms Trader Manucher Ghorbanifar for more than five hours in the elegant chambers of the Hotel Plaza Athenee. Then they walked down the avenue a few blocks to see Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi sybarite, in the pillowed splendor of his apartment...