Where's the condo tower for short people?
By adamg - 11/25/09 - 4:01 pm
John Ford points us to a Times article about some real-estate fixer that includes an anecdote about how he came up to Boston to take over a failed (as in foreclosed and with fire damage) condo tower whose previous manager had tried to sneak an extra floor in by chopping a foot off the ceiling height of all the floors:
To help solve the height problem, Mr. Radow hired only sales people who weren’t much taller than 5 feet.




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Anyone else reminded of
By anon (not verified) - 11/25/09 - 4:39 pm
Being John malkovich?
Grandview
By Jay Levitt - 11/25/09 - 6:45 pm
Seems to be the Grandview:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-7810864.html