Except in Portland and Minneapolis, each local government is free to make its own decisions about whether to permit the building of a new office block or shopping mall, regardless of any cost the decision imposes on neighbours.
Ding Chen Chinese Hotpot is one block south of the MIAT office (look for the red sign across from the Art Cinema).
The business' address was listed in Enderby, Leicestershire, although the owner of the office block said it had never been there.
Hong Kong's Portico is located in a Citibank office block on the fringes of the Central financial district.
Mr. Obama's goal is to restore billions of dollars to community block grants, a key source of funding for cities, with the new office shepherding the disbursements.
"That's my building, " she said, pointing to an office block surrounded by a line of a mounted police and another line of police in riot gear.
The Bukaka group's office block stands in an unfashionable part of downtown Jakarta.
Deputy Rob Duhamel gave permission for the first office block to be built as part of the Esplanade Quarter, but subject to more than 30 conditions.
The closure of the Hilton and the ongoing conversion of the Victoria Hotel into an office block are helping lift demand for the remaining upscale rooms in Hong Kong.
Kunskapsskolan Enskede, a school for 11- to 16-year-olds in a suburb of Stockholm, is a former office block into which classrooms, open-study spaces and two small lecture-theatres have been squeezed (pictured).
Part of the scheme would see the stable block converted for office use.
Thick curtains block the sun from his office, which are lush quarters reminiscent of an Old West hotel.
The Budget Bill is designed to enable distribution of finance to government departments in the year 2010-11, and authorises the use of the block grant by government departments, the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation.
Such concerns are unlikely to be such a stumbling-block this time, as the DPJ spent much of its last year in office urging the BoJ to ease more aggressively.
Mr. LARRY SIMMS (Former Deputy, United States Justice Department): To say that an agency can block an investigation by refusing to give federal investigators here at the Office of Professional Responsibility the clearances they need is just astounding.
Even the office flies below the radar, tucked behind unmarked frosted windows on a nondescript block of West Olympic Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
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