It was Nakheel that built the Palm Jumeirah, an island shaped like a palm tree and packed tight with apartment buildings and villas.
So, even though funds were tight — the apartment had cost them $289,000, and they had spent most of Mr. LaValle's latest book advance on renovations — she began shopping for a desk to put in the living and dining space adjacent to the kitchen.
In the past few weeks, a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the Dakota by one of its former board presidents has opened the gates of privacy at one of the city's most renowned and tight-lipped apartment buildings.
She mentioned Marcia Covington, 41, who lives in a tight three-bedroom apartment with six children.
A sign that perhaps security was still tight at the apartment block came when the building manager rang the police following the Guardian's inquiries, who arrived within five minutes.
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To them, he is Tight-Rod, an apartment tycoon, who, renters say, has jacked late fees to $100 from $50 on units that run around $600 a month.
Shot in just 13 days, the film is primarily framed in tight spaces -- apartments, seedy massage parlors, and rickshaws.
Chris Harper Mercer and his mother were familiar faces in the tight-knit Torrance apartment complex where they lived for several years before moving to Oregon a year or two ago, a neighbor said.
