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The restaurants and shops (everything from 7-Eleven to Cartier) are the financial engine of Changi and even locals are lured by a tax exemption extended into the public areas and a price guarantee that doubles the refunded difference of any lower price found in downtown Singapore, part of an effort to combat airport price gouging.
BBC: Changi: The airport of your dreams
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"What is going to happen is lower and lower-middle income families squeezed out of downtown and glamorous suburban locations are going to be pushed economically into these McMansions at the suburban fringe, " said Nelson.
CNN: Is America's suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
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The area will become history's largest construction site, or so says the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Centre, an agency that oversees all downtown Manhattan building projects.
ECONOMIST: How much, and how little, has changed
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It has the lowest space availability in the city of the three submarkets (Midtown, Midtown South, and Downtown), and that availability in anticipated to go even lower.
FORBES: Manhattan Real Estate Has Become The Gold Standard
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Urbane and urban: "Hitch" is very much a tale of Manhattan -- lower Manhattan, where Ms. Mendes's Sara works as a gossip columnist for an upmarket downtown tabloid, and farther-flung parts of the island, where Hitch counsels gauche, lovelorn men in the art of approaching and attracting the women of their dreams.
WSJ: Will Power