This two-pronged approach reflects the two sources of tenants that are being tapped.
This housing association sources the tenants, either through local authority housing waiting lists or via the local authority's choice-based letting system.
There, thanks to a patchwork quilt of financing from city, state and nonprofit agencies and private sources, the tenants have become the owners, albeit indirectly, through their tenants' association.
There's a visit to a crack house, a drug overdose, teenage car thieves, a poisoning, a drug-and-alcohol-related car crash and, just to be true to its Parisian source, a tenant of ill repute.
Though public housing elevators have long been a source of tenant complaints, their safety was called into question after a 5-year-old, Jacob Neuman, fell 10 stories to his death after trying to escape a stalled elevator at a Brooklyn complex in August.
Commercial firms will of course step in with offerings to make open source multi-tenant.
Some of the city's largest landlords are beginning to embrace health care as a source of new tenants.
The primary source of potential tenants for the developers of both buildings is a batch of Philadelphia employers whose leases expire in 2005 and 2006, including the drug maker GlaxoSmithKline, the consulting firm Towers Perrin, the insurer Cigna, the reinsurer ACE Group and the Sunoco petroleum company.
So if more than 20percentt of a co-op's total income is from nontenant-shareholder sources, including commercial tenants, the co-op violates what is known as the 80-20 rule, and its shareholders suffer.
But attracting companies from downtown Manhattan -- especially financial concerns, the riverfront's main tenant source -- may be difficult since the building is not near a PATH station, which brokers said was a key draw to such employers.
