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The firm quickly built up its portfolio of office properties, eventually becoming the largest owner and operator of Class A office buildings in San Francisco.
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The former have long griped about the overstock of shabby Class B buildings, where floors are crowded with columns and cramped by low ceilings, and where even basic central air conditioning has to be installed.
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If these improprieties had taken place at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley, C-level executives would have been frog marched out of their office buildings in handcuffs and a flood of shareholder class action lawsuits would have been filed in state and federal courts across the nation.
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Now, spurred by the tourist potential, and by the interest of Brazil's urban middle class, dozens of towns and cities are doing up old buildings or even entire neighbourhoods.
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Even if you want to attract A-list clientele, you don't need to lease space in newly constructed, "Class A" buildings at the center of town.
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In Manhattan, Class A office buildings account for 61% of the total market.
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It was difficult to think that a day after taking pictures of middle class workers in the Indonesian capital, just three hours away from luxurious buildings, I found a group of students risking their lives to go to school.
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Class B: Buildings competing for a wide range of users with rents in the average range for the area.
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While there is no standard definition for what qualifies as Class A, Class B and Class C commercial office buildings, the vast majority of definitions used consider the following criteria: age, location, building infrastructure and ownership.
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Just one industrial-class example: Panoptix, a Johnson Controls subsidiary, has an app store for energy management of commercial buildings.
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