But its corporate office towers have proven a tougher sell to startups accustomed to Dumbo lofts.
Giant new office towers and blocks of flats are going up all around the city.
Office towers, housing and a conference and exhibition centre transformed a rundown industrial site.
Today, Old Shanghai is walled in by the apartment and office towers slowly and inevitably approaching from all sides.
Past the shopping mall with a Citibank and Sony and Adidas shops, a row of office towers houses IBM, EMC and Oracle.
Lopez says the scale of the building was designed to blend in neatly with the Soumaya and the various surrounding Polanco office towers.
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Bustling office towers, lively shopping malls, thronged hotels: All have done well in recent years for the real estate investment trusts that own them.
Originally known as the Omni International Complex, it was a multi-use facility that offered a European-style hotel, fine shops, restaurants, and two 14-story office towers.
During the 1980s he moved into the New York market and built 12 Manhattan office towers with more than five million square feet of space.
Even in office towers not specifically designed to be smart, a critical mass of tech tenants sometimes enables them to negotiate for their special needs.
While these are certainly not as high profile as the GM Building, they are all respectable--even elegant, in the case of 125 West 55th--office towers.
Even optimistic commercial-property developers are stacking sandbags to hold back a financial deluge in the market for office towers, hotels, shopping malls and other commercial real estate.
Since then Hines has become one of the largest developers in Manhattan, overseeing construction of office towers for Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs.
In late August, I stood in the center of Mexico City, surrounded by glimmering office towers, looking up at the dark outline of the HSBC Mexico building.
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They point out that emerging economies have been frantically accumulating real assets, such as assembly lines and office towers, but their generation of financial assets has not kept pace.
Developers have complained that they can't make money on building office towers in the area unless they're able to pack more space onto scarce and expensive land in Midtown.
From the top of a skyscraper in the center of the city at night, the lights of apartment buildings and office towers twinkle all the way to the horizon.
The master plan that was eventually selected, by Daniel Libeskind, split the difference, arranging a number of office towers around a memorial space occupying the footprint of the Twin Towers.
It's normal for REITs to trade at a premium of around 3% to the value of the office towers and malls they own, thanks to the liquidity they provide, Fosheim says.
The restaurant and terrace especially heats up after work when corporate bigwigs descend from the office towers to relax with a drink and appetizers in the hotel's garden bar to the sounds of live music.
Three years ago he lured hotshot Goldman, Sachs partner Michael Fascitelli to the firm to help buy out a cash-strapped New York landlord named Bernard Mendik, who owned several prime Midtown office towers.
After the Olympics came a vast transformation to the current Michelin star-studded gastronomic paradise, likewise a renaissance for office towers, shinkansen fast trains, freeways and, later, mass foreign tourism with a strong currency and credit cards.
But as Forbes vice chairman Kip Forbes, Forbes Asia publisher Will Adamopoulos and I made the rounds in the luxury hotels and office towers, it was the U.S. president and GDP that was the greater concern.
Minoru kept the company name and focused on building grand office towers surrounded by shops, condos, parks and art galleries such as Roppongi Hills, meant to create the feel of a hilly community in flat Tokyo.
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The Bloomberg administration is considering such a delay because it doesn't want to create competition for the city's ambitious Hudson Yards project on the Far West Side, where developers are still seeking anchor tenants to help get large office towers off the ground.
The project joins a handful of similar planned towers in cities such as Chicago and San Francisco, where developers and investors are putting faith in the recovery gaining steam and forging ahead with speculative office towers planned to open in two to three years.
If the early reports of no deaths or major damage hold, the quake would stand in stark contrast to Mexico's 1985 earthquake that measured 8.0 in magnitude, killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of buildings in Mexico City, including hospitals, office towers and hotels.
City officials have been particularly attracted to the possible benefits the subway extension could bring to the far West Side, an area the Bloomberg administration has been seeking to redevelop with new office and apartment towers.
Clinton abandoned plans earlier this year to rent office space in Carnegie Towers, a midtown building that would have cost twice the amount of his Harlem office.
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