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High-rise rental and condo developments have attracted more single, young professionals, but not at a pace that radically changes the demographics.
New restaurants keep the good times rolling at Bethesda Row Danielle Douglas 2010
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High-rise residents and office workers in Manhattan's Financial District have long wondered about a warplane atop a building on Water Street.
Rooftop Warplane 2011
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High-rise hotels and condominiums in Waikiki underwent a "vertical evacuation," which allowed guests to stay in their rooms as long as they were four floors or higher.
Tsunami Goes Far But Loses Its Punch Lucy Craymer 2011
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Bloomberg News High-rise residential and commercial buildings stand in Beijing on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010.
China Targets Land Hoarding, Pushes Public Housing Esther Fung 2010
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High-rise and even low-rise condo complexes have high-construction costs, and are only "profitable" when subsidized or in the imaginations of the myriad developers who have foolishly overestimated people's housing budgets throughout the course of the last decade.
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So Volker concludes each part – they get more and more horrifying – with ‘You Are High-rise’.
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High-rise condominiums and big hotels line the road.
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High-rise condominiums and big hotels line the road.
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High-rise buildings stand under the black cloud in Manhattan on July 14.
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PAUL: At the end-credits, Volker always says, ‘And remember: You – are High-rise …’ This is an allusion to a recent campaign of the CDU government in Germany.
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