Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went on to become the youngest Attorney General in Missoun's history in 1960 and the youngest lieu tenant governor in 1964, a race he won by more than half a million votes...
Major objections to the Board's new proposal were raised by members of the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee. They claimed that the allowance for rent increase would insure profit for the landlords, place the burden of proof of the necessity for rent increases on the tenant and discriminate against established working-class Cambridge residents who would be made bankrupt by any such rate adjustment...
...London, few are as tall, as eye-catching or as potentially profitable as Harry Hyams' Centre Point. Or as empty. In the seven years since the 34-story building was completed on St. Giles Circus at the end of bustling Oxford Street, it has not acquired a single tenant. Many Londoners have charged that Hyams is purposely keeping it unoccupied to cash in later on runaway rent rises...
...formula behind Hyams' real estate success is simple. He has concentrated on developing office space in central London, which now rents for up to $25 per sq. ft.-more than in most U.S. and European cities. And whenever possible he tries to find a single blue-chip tenant to fill each of his buildings who will be responsible for all repairs and insurance and can sublet part of the space. "All we have to do is collect the rent," explains an Oldham agent. As a result, Hyams manages his entire real estate empire with a staff of about...
That streamlined approach is the main reason for the mystery of Centre Point. Hyams claims that he has been actively seeking a tenant for Centre Point all along, but can find no firm willing to sign up for all 202,000 sq. ft. of space-the only terms he will give...