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Twenty feet wide, it is the building's organizing element and circulation spine, connecting the first four floors and continuing upward with bridges across the space and a narrower stair above as it ascends to the structure's full nine-story height.

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The element of relative scarcity in the economy over the last four years has given rise to much more intense competition.

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