In 1985, Mr. Terk sold his penthouse and founded the Terk Technologies Corporation, leasing space in Westchester, then in Syosset and Plainview.
Last month, the corporation offered space in these buildings to the Joyce Theater Foundation, the Signature Theater Company, the Drawing Center and the Freedom Center.
But few artists can afford to outbid a corporation for space on a billboard; even ones as popular as the Guerrilla Girls can only do it occasionally, and then only for a short time.
The impact of large corporations vacating space continues to be felt.
"We will not budge," said Yuri Semyonov, head of the Russian space corporation Energiya.
The corporation leased the space for the dance troupe for five years with an option to renew for an additional five years.
But he said it was a "tremendous challenge" for a small company to compete with a large corporation for shelf space.
The church retained 80 Fourth Avenue as an investment, however, and in 1972 leased it for 25 years to Gracepark Building Corporation, which rented space to various users, including a number of photographers.
Already I know that MirCorp is registered in Bermuda, run out of Amsterdam and structured as a 40-60 partnership with the space corporation Energia (38percentt of which is owned by the Russian government).
The country... or the corporation?" While commercial space flights will be a reality soon – for those who have the £150,000 for the price of a ticket on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic sub-orbital flights – mining asteroids might take a while longer.
PAGE E16 TANGLED UP IN BLUE... SUIT, THAT IS Standing along the Texas highway in a puffy blue suit, Salman chips out a $6-an-hour living in the self-titled movie as Kabluey, a featureless blob whose purpose is to help a failing corporation sell office space.
