Among the people snacking on cupcakes and coffee in Omar's packed office Thursday was Halimo Ahmed, a prominent Somali singer and friend of Omar's family who traveled from her home in Finland.
But the diminishing physical needs of many businesses in the digital era, and the realisation that residential and leisure towers needed fewer lifts than packed office blocks, leaving more space to let, contributed to a shift by landlords and developers.
The tightly packed offices and stores along prosperous Northern Boulevard near Main Street appear to gleam like healthy teeth.
Stacks of handwritten visa applications sit in a packed immigration office, waiting for embassies to sign off on their citizens.
But - in a packed, sweaty office lobby - the ANC announced it was pulling the plug on Juju's big adventure.
Before I leave I make myself a packed lunch – our office is fairly remote and this means I don't have to drive into town.
Instead they have played political games, packing offices with cronies and siphoning cash from the oil geysers that Iraq sits on top of.
Pack office-sensible clothes which can be mixed and matched so you have a different outfit every day.
Each year the company holds a "luggage party". Every employee is eligible, and each associate that wants to be part of the drawing brings a packed bag into the office on the day of the party.
