His mother retired as the assistant treasurer in the New York corporate office of the Foot Locker retail chain.
Asbestos removal and demolition of interior partitions have begun as a first step in creating three furnished model offices of 1,500 square feet to 4,000 square feet.
The company ultimately plans a total of 2.5 million square feet of offices, 400,000 square feet of stores, 2,000 residences and possibly a film studio and a sports stadium.
Planned are 885,000 square feet of offices, 100,000 square feet of stores and 420 residences.
The company's initial phase includes 670,000 square feet of offices, 170,000 square feet of stores, 350 apartments and parking for 5,600 cars.
When the real estate investment manager Jamestown Properties began renovating a massive old Sears warehouse in Atlanta last year, it had a good idea of what it wanted to create: a bustling urban hub with 440,000 square feet of offices, 330,000 square feet of shops and 259 residential units.
This obligation has momentarily trumped other questions, among them whether downtown needs 11 million square feet of new offices, 600,000 square feet of stores and a 600,000-square-foot hotel.
The upper floors were divided into smaller offices of 300 to 500 square feet.
HUNDREDS of cubicles; dozens of individual offices; 90,000 square feet of space.
It will contain 57,000 square feet of retail space, 160,000 square feet of offices and 34,000 square feet of catering facilities and a residential component, most likely rentals.
