Despite being the story's catalysts, the grandparents receive relatively scant space compared with their offspring.
Two years ago, construction crews started building 17 million square feet of office space, compared with 4 million this year.
It would give them all sorts of space, compared with South Boston, where the houses crowd in on one another.
Furthermore, they occupy a complementary region of chemical space compared with the typical synthetic compound library.
Another plus is that they take up very little space compared with traditional passive compensators.
According to Mr. Cohen of Newmark, it costs $300 to $500 a square foot to prepare telecommunications space, compared with about $70 a square foot for office installations.
He noted that Midtown Manhattan has roughly 250 million square feet of office space compared with 100 million square feet downtown.
And it will be cramped, with about 8,500 square feet of selling space compared with 12,000 in the old place.
The city's west side, which includes Bel Air and Beverly Hills, has 13,310 acres of public open space, compared with 75 acres for the southeastern section.
It has only about eight million square feet of Class A space, compared to nearly 180 million square feet in Midtown.
The expanded Mohegan Sun, for instance, will have 280,000 square feet of gambling space, compared with 315,310 square feet at Foxwoods.
