In 1993, the General Electric Pension Trust, which took over the building in a foreclosure, hired the Galbreath Company, an international real-estate management firm, to recommend how to salvage its mortgage on a nearly empty skyscraper that had an annoying tendency to sway in the wind.
Vaporwave makes the banal sound luscious, like the kind of beats you'd twerk to at the top of an empty skyscraper looking out across Dubai. .
But by 1931, when the bridge would open — after 12 workers had died on the job (9 more than would perish building the Verrazano, which was completed in 1964) — New York was a city of bread lines and apple sellers and half-empty skyscrapers.
For a century its fortunes have been inextricably linked to the canal, whose billion-dollar revenue bypasses the third of the population living below the poverty line; it still uses the US dollar, a remnant of the years when its neighbour virtually ran the place; the capital's skyline is dominated by a forest of half-empty skyscrapers, owned by foreign speculators.
Allen says that when his boss took office in 2002, the city had 17 rotting "dinosaurs" of empty office skyscrapers.
Imagine having a one-hour window to empty out skyscrapers that are at 90-plus90-pluspercentancy!
Awash with empty homes, skyscrapers, and factories and saddled with nearly 15percentt unemployment, Detroit has been economically water-boarded and bled dry.
Enron Fell; Houston Didn't Anyone who doubts the economic upheaval that shook Houston need only pause at the foot of the city's newest -- and emptiest -- skyscraper.
The streets were littered, the skyscrapers empty, the subways idle.
The streets were littered with debris, the skyscrapers empty, the subways hushed.
