The Related Group inquired about renting the Pro Piano space as a showroom for a new development called Superior Ink, a riverfront condominium in an old factory building a few blocks away at West Street and West 12th Street.
Inside the new development's showroom, a few minutes' walk north up Benhill Road, I introduced myself as a potential buyer.
There he found a beautiful building next to the Hermès store that was a showroom for the Beverly Park development, then in its early stage.
Tony Pidgley settles into a mock regency chair in the showroom of one of his latest developments, the conversion of a 19th century college into flats, in a scruffy patch of Battersea, south London.
This is a small, but important change in language and methodology, which Ford says will cut development time from sketch to showroom by 20percentt.
It went from concept car to showroom model in only 18 months, demonstrating General Motors' new prowess in product development.
That is both the most challenging and rewarding — working through each aspect of the development period and seeing the collection put together in a showroom, or down the catwalk.
A vicious circle has set in: the poor financial performance of Chinese firms' own brands has sapped their will to invest in research and development to improve their performance on the road and in the showrooms.
On a recent afternoon at Star City's air-conditioned showroom, Mr. Hlaing said the Myanmar authorities were taking a "very keen interest" in the development and saw it as a benchmark for future housing projects.
That development took away the dealership's surface parking and blocked many of its showroom windows, according to Mr. Heller, making it difficult to attract customers to buy or service cars.
With the software and hardware development speed accelerating, cars can risk being dated before they arrive in the showroom.
