"It involved a free warehousing of the deal for 18 months," said H. Dale Hemmerdinger, the authority's chairman.
Gahagan was reluctant to talk about Symbotic's customers, who aren't keen to draw attention to their interest in nearly human-free warehouse systems.
Over the years the family has amassed an estimated 300 Picassos worth $900 million, and about 4,500 other works by artists including Monet and Miró, many secreted in a duty-free warehouse near the Geneva airport.
The latest pitch on the city's behalf was made in Yonkers Stage, a glamour-free warehouse where Russell Crowe and Colin Farrell are expected to be shooting scenes in a couple of months.
With no place at his African lodgings to house his art suitably -- which had grown to 423 paintings, 238 sculptures and 91 other pieces -- he decided to store the collection for many years at a duty-free warehouse outside Zurich.
When the Iranian government issued only one license to operate a duty-free warehouse in Ahwaz through which passed most of the drilling equipment for oil fields there, that license went to a company controlled by the shah's nephew.
For many years at auction, they rarely battled with collectors over high-profile paintings, but walked away with less-sought-after works, which they stockpiled in a duty-free warehouse near the Geneva airport believed to hold more than 3,000 of their paintings and sculptures.
Du Sautoy was enthralled by the algorithmic power on display at Ocado's employee-free warehouse, and blithely claimed that research showed marriages between people who met through dating sites that used algorithms to match them lasted longer and were happier than people who meet in the traditional manner.
The two own an inventory worth some $3 billion that they store in a duty-free warehouse next to the airport in Geneva, Switzerland.
Megadealer David Nahmad and his brother Ezra own a huge stockpile of modern and impressionist art that they store in a duty-free warehouse next to the airport in Geneva, Switzerland.
