But in the three years since it was planned, the real estate market improved, "making it economically worthwhile to move ahead," he added.
Nervous that the Council could scuttle the proposal and eager to make changes to the city's plan, the real estate industry decided to build a united front with unions representing construction, building maintenance and hotel workers.
Insulated for much of the century from the vicissitudes of the British economy through the global spread of the family's meat businesses and masterly tax planning, the real world caught up with the designated heir, Edmund's son Tim.
For the future, so long as the disaster of Iraq is put down to mistakes or lack of planning, the real lessons will not be learned, but repeated - as appears to be happening now in Afghanistan.
Despite appearing in a recent Charles Schwab ad about retirement planning, "the Real Deal" intends to keep fighting.
Note that at the inception of planning horizon, some parameters are uncertain, and only in the execution time of the plan, the real values of uncertain parameters will be realized.
It turns out that, after months of evolving a strategy around sniping at May for "having no plan", the real strategic vacuum lies within.
When the market for even commercial space softened, beginning about 1989, most grand plans in the real estate industry were placed on hold.
Because the production crew had access to several pictures and plans of the real office, they were able to replicate it in almost every detail.
In a sense, the live shoot house looks like the ultimate training stage, the last stop in reality-based preparation before tactical plans hit the real world.
