These men saw the scorched Loop as a sandbox for innovation, and they rapidly built bigger, better commercial structures over the low buildings that immediately went up after the fire.
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The Venturis' once-shocking pronouncement that Main Street was almost all right was a flash of urban wisdom that could lead to the realization that the maligned glass box is almost all right for a contemporary vernacular suited to the unprecedented scale of the commercial structures that fill our cities.
It includes almost 50 buildings -- houses, churches, commercial and industrial structures, cultural and civic centers, universities and museums, many of them competition-winning projects -- as well as his activity as a town planner and designer for industry, presented in drawings, models, photographs and "walk-through" videos.
Cycling through the Historic Centre becomes a kaleidoscopic journey, a surreal succession of sombre colonial structures, frenetic commercial activity and feathered Aztec dancers.
So far, he has purchased 15 buildings, totaling 2.6 million square feet of commercial space, and three parking structures for a combined 3, 500 parking spaces.
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The new standard will require that residential, commercial or infrastructure projects using federal aid elevate their structures 1 foot above the latest Federal Emergency Management Agency recommendations or, if elevation isn't possible, relocate or flood-proof boilers or other utilities a foot higher than the latest federal guidance.
Some 150 vacant structures dot the city, and that excludes commercial buildings downtown that have tenants on their street floor but, above, boarded-up windows.
This leaves "green" industries reduced to largely improving the energy footprint of existing structures, an effort that will no doubt be further undermined by the deteriorating picture for many commercial mortgages.
Sabre Industries, which provides wireless towers, monopoles and transmission structures, and Nobao Renewable Energy, a Shanghai-based provider of heat pumps used to cool commercial buildings, did not price as expected.
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