Although Lehman is also negotiating to take over a building downtown at 180 Water Street, many fear that the decisions by Lehman and other banks to sign long-term leases outside the neighborhood suggest a diminished financial presence in Lower Manhattan.
But many companies are not waiting around; they are considering signing long-term leases outside New York and, executives said, may not want to undertake the risk or expense of moving back.
While two high-profile companies have signed leases outside of Manhattan, the majority of companies want to stay put.
Since then, his administration has imprisoned some 680 people at Guantanamo Bay precisely because it believed that the naval base, held on a perpetual lease, is outside the reach of anyone's courts, including America's.
A few years ago, though, me and Tim Armstrong from Rancid are walking down the street from his Hell Cat label offices, and I see the club for first time in twenty years, and there's a for lease sign outside.
Space in the top half will be leased to outside tenants.
It argued in court that the extension of leases lay outside California's jurisdiction, since it was merely paperwork and had no direct environmental impact.
If all the space at the new complex is not taken by Siemens companies, the vacant space will be leased to outside concerns, he said.
The Indians point out that the checks are not government handouts, but money owed individual Indians from land leased to outside business interests and managed by the Interior Department.
Bangladesh's Daily Star reported that he returned to his birth country four months ago and was growing Napier grass (a strain that is typically cultivated for animal grazing) on two acres of leased land outside of Rangpur city.
