It has traditionally held two separate business: "Tower Station", a gas station on the western side, and the "U-Drop Inn", a café on the eastern side.
Today, as we scan the skylines of our cities and towns, we can easily recognize which institution has come to dominate people's lives: the temples of big business tower over both the houses of church and state.
The seventh-floor suite of an isolated business tower in this area of richly ethnic enclaves bustled for much of the last year with Republican volunteers poring over voter phone lists, then dialing to speak with residents not just in English, but also Spanish and Korean.
The new Goodman, in the middle of the city's business towers, is a commanding, central structure.
In many European cities, with their sleek new business towers, it is often difficult to fathom what happened there during the war.
Values have dropped 60 percent for the city over all, where the average price per square foot is now around 890 dirhams, and even more in developments further into the desert, away from Dubai's main business towers and beaches.
Glancing up the smooth, reflecting flanks of the business towers I wonder at this new, noiseless commerce, at how it works unseen, contained, wrapped around in shrouds of glass, camouflaged by tinkling fountains and gargantuan potted shrubs.
Forty years on, our cities are clamouring for sky-high business towers and indulging in whale-like arts and cultural centres that future generations may well find hard to staff, fund, fill and maintain.
This wouldn't ordinarily have been of note – I get not-rained on all the time – except that, just beyond the metal barriers delineating TED's rarefied food truck corral, I could see rain coming down in sheets, bright against the dark business towers.
Blocks of prewar dwellings have been leveled and replaced with modern business towers and residential buildings; lavish spending has created a good road network.
IBM, whose $33 billion global services business towers over all others, grew only 3% last year mainly due to a falloff of year-2000-related year-2000-related year-2000-relatedoaching an eye-popping $85 billion.
