While there were a total of 91 office leasing deals signed in dozens of Midtown buildings for $100 or more per square foot at the height of the office market in 2008, that number plummeted to just 18 deals in 2009, according to data from the commercial brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle.
To be fair Magnolia kept it in theatres for almost six months, but it should have opened in November and not at the height of box office season last June, when it was drowned out by the sound of blockbusters.
Sloane Crosley: There will be no shortage of diagnoses about the latest episode of "Mad Men," in which a doctor gave the ad agency staff vitamin shots (and here I thought gratis granola and back massages were the height of modern office perks), and an intruder tried to convince the untended mini-Drapers that she was their father's long-lost African-American "grandmother".
"It is an intoxicatingly beautiful building by the most brilliant architect at the height of her office's powers," said juror Piers Gough, of CZWG Architects, the only member of the six-strong panel to have seen the project in the flesh.
This is because, for more than half a century, developers observed a self-imposed 500-foot restriction on the height of their office towers so that they would not rise higher than the 548-foot City Hall, which is topped by a bronze statue of William Penn.
The 14.1″ laptop features a spill resistant keyboard and can survive a drop from one foot to a "non-yielding surface" while off, as well as drops from 30″ (a little over the height of an office desk) while running.
Also, adjusting the height of your office chair too often will wear it down much faster.
The building is designed to put a 50,000-square-foot trading floor below grade, and four of the floors that are above ground are to have ceiling heights of 16 feet rather than the 12.5- to 13-foot heights typical of office buildings.
The Tories don't have to capitalise on this fear by taking it to the dizzying heights of governmental office and hardening it into policy.
Last week Ms. Roberts declined through her publicist, Marcy Engelman, to discuss her decision to star in "Duplicity," or her reasons for stepping aside, if not quite back, at the height of her box office appeal.
