When expansion meant buying the small building next door to the original branch, the valuable ground-floor retail space was leased to Starbucks.

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After several blocks I came across a Wells Fargo bank branch lit in the full blaze of noon, its wide space and swaths of red and yellow bathed in useless light, as it is all through every night when there is power.

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Dr. Dankle, the cardiologist, helped secure extra funding and acted as an adviser, while Fairview Southdale and its branch of the University of Minnesota Physicians Heart group provided free meeting space and other logistical help.

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The Prada Foundation, the brand's charitable art branch, has helped restore the Venetian palazzo Ca' Corner Della Regina for use as an exhibition space.

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