The footprint of the house is mandated by code, but not the amount of floor space.
The capacity of these buildings to concentrate a huge amount of floor space on a relatively small plot of land meant they became powerful tools of economic speculation.
An expansion of the factory will double the amount of floor space as the company begins the transition from research and development to production.
To put this in context Sears has over 2,000 stores in the US and can offer a huge amount of floor space to any would-be tenant.
Vendors' exhibits, some 2,000 in all, are still spread across a sole-trying amount of floor — more than three million square feet of display space to be walked — but it is no longer the sparkly, bodacious affair of the boom years.
The number of bedrooms, amount of floor space, and what the local area is like all tend to have the greatest influence on how much a house is worth.
By law, conversions of space in those buildings to uses other than garment factories can occur only if an equal amount of floor area is set aside for garment manufacturing, something that the City Planning Commission is supposed to certify.
From the beginning of April, condominiums being built in big cities have been allowed to double the amount of floor space they can build on a given piece of land.In retailing, a law that made it almost impossible for big shops to set up without the permission of their would-be competitors has been progressively relaxed.
The Leadenhall, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, narrows for two reasons – to get out of the way of views of St Paul's from Fleet Street, and because a given amount of floor space requires more structure, and lifts and ducts, the further up a building it is, so it makes sense to have less of it high up.
