Akinori Koto, general manager of Digital Garage's U.S. operations, says the space will house a new incubator for U.S. startups interested in the Japanese market and serve as a home away from home for startups from its Tokyo-based incubator.

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Roughly 85% of all single-family homes in the U.S. have a garage, and 74% of homeowners with one say that parking cars is its most important use, according to a February survey of 987 homeowners by Home Innovation Research Labs, a subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders.

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Perhaps 100 custom builders ply this trade in the U.S. Jesse James' garage, West Coast Choppers, is a sprawl of warehouses in a rundown neighborhood of wrecking yards and auto body shops.

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Roach's cramped Hollywood gym, the Wild Card, is now a boxing mecca, and the trainer enjoys the trappings of success a slick Mercedes in the garage, the ability to pamper his mother and a flattering appointment as a U.S. Olympic boxing team coach.

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The next morning, the garage doors opened beneath me and I watched as Diana, with the girls in tow, backed the S.U.V. down the driveway.

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