The department provided space in a warren of offices that it has on West 20th Street.
A 13,000-square-foot emergency room addition will triple the department's space and create 17 new treatment rooms.
The real crusher came in 1948, when Francis Henry Taylor, the Metropolitan's fifth director, took away nearly half of the Greek and Roman department's space.
If they ever needed a manned fire department in space there'd be a lot of firemen who would probably jump at the opportunity.
And like Godzilla marching through Tokyo, Hilfiger has been munching up department store space at a rapacious pace -- leaving even the brand's most ardent supporters wondering whether it is too much.
Russian soldiers at one checkpoint took charge of five orphaned boys this fall and were feeding them army rations until Grozny's social welfare department found space for them at an orphanage.
The Hartford Police Department uses the Kennedy Road Veterinary Clinic for its injured animals, but by the time people figured that out, the dog had been moved to the K-9 Educathen Center, where the police department rents space for abandoned dogs, and the word had spread that the Akita was not -- not yet anyway -- available for adoption.
A check of some others in the department store space: Saks shares are trading higher by over 2%, while Dillard's shares are trading higher by over 1.4%, and J.C. Penney shares are trading lower by over 0.3%.
The current idea is to dedicate a large portion of electronics department floor space to Apple TV, showing everyday consumers ('cause that's all these companies see you as, consumers) its mighty power.
It is to include a Jewish Museum of Canada, a Faculty of Music performance hall, research centres and History department academic space.
In the late 1930s, a new War Department Building was constructed at 21st and C Streets in Foggy Bottom, but upon completion, the new building did not solve the department's space problem, and ended up being used by the Department of State.
