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Mr. Lichter said Apollo has signed on a few "major" companies thus far, though he declined to provide names.
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The bulk of the space is set to be office space, where Mr. Lichter plans to make a single grand entrance.
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The ascendancy of interracial marriage is partly fueled by the wave of immigration in recent decades, with U.S.-born offspring of Hispanics and Asians entering adulthood, said Mr. Lichter.
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"It's going to take us some time, " Mr. Lichter said.
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Mr. Lichter, president of Industrial Realty Group LLC, is planning to convert the 1.7 million-square-foot hodgepodge of brick and concrete buildings into hotel rooms, housing, modern office space and other uses.
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Mr. Lichter, who in the late 1980s redeveloped B.
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Mr. Lichter acknowledged filling the office space would be a challenge but said Akron has benefited recently from growth in the natural-gas sector, which is expanding drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking, " nearby.
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Apollo made a seven-figure investment in the initiative, including faculty fees and payments to design firm IDEO, which designed the class's website, according to George Lichter, who heads the Apollo unit overseeing the project.
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Dr. S. Robert Lichter is Professor of Communications at George Mason University, where he also directs the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media, and the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), which works to improve the quality of statistical and scientific information in the news.
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