There are similar properties throughout Gulberg, where large houses with tropical gardens, carefully watered lawns, and expansive pools lie hidden behind high brick walls.
But the real star of the show is the city itself with its dark, zombie-infested alleys and sewers, its whale-oil-powered steampunk technology, and its high brick walls.
For example, one maker is instructed to produce a basic camera in a super-slim handset, while another is told to make a high-end camera in a brick.
Greenery is critical to counterbalance the "urban heat island" effect from hotter, drier summers, when night-time temperatures remain high because of heat retained by brick and tarmac.
Stuyvesant Town and the slightly higher-end Peter Cooper Village were built in 1947, with the help of tax breaks, to provide homes for soldiers returning from the war and public-sector workers. (At first, at odds with the estates' current image as a model community, only whites were allowed, a policy that was abandoned, after some nasty scenes, in the 1950s.) The high-rise estates include 110 unremarkable brick buildings with 11, 232 apartments, home to about 25, 000 tenants.
In an industrial town cluttered with high rise flats, the two storey red brick house stands out - it even has its own gym.
Realistically, business leaders are not always going to experience success, and high times are going to be tempered with seemingly brick walls to climb.
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" The Wizard of Oz" is digitally remastered in high-definition, so you can follow the yellow brick road at 8 p.m. with the kids.
Imagine that your high-school junior spends half of every day at the brick-and-mortar school up the street.
The SEC seems to have understood the diversity of interests here: brick-and-mortar companies as well as high-tech pioneers, investors who live in the digital media and investors who may not even own a computer.
This has allowed internet companies to poach sales from big box stores, and crater profits for brick-and-mortar companies that are drowning under high fixed costs.
The ornate hotel is filled with European antiques and elegant suites (some with four poster beds and claw-foot tubs), plus modern amenities such as large flat screen televisions and complimentary high-speed wi-fi throughout the historic five-storey brick structure.
This Friday the company will open its first brick and mortar Spanx store at Tysons Corner Center, a high-end mall in McLean, Va.
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All-cash sales have proliferated in large part thanks to foreign buyers and investors but Baby Boomers who believe brick and mortar real estate is a good place to seek a relatively high yield on money have contributed to this trend too.
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If you drive almost anywhere in Danville, Virginia around Christmastime, you can see a 28-foot-high metal bust of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus atop the sprawling red-brick Dan River mill.
The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
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