Downtown Charlotte is booming with the new construction of office buildings.

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Most of the high-rise office buildings built in those cities before the mid-1990s do not meet current standards for new construction, and most of them have not been upgraded, said Hamburger.

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"Much of the area in the last decade has been paved over, with new construction, making a search today very difficult, " said Detective Bob Dean of the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.

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