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  • He has listed the quirky eight-story building for sale, hoping to find a buyer who will preserve his creation, but willing to sell to the highest bidder.

    For Sale: One Labor of Love Josh Barbanel 2011

  • The blaze swept through an eight-story building in the city's Kowloon section that consisted mainly of apartments subdivided into rental units as small as 100 square feet, a typical arrangement in older city districts.

    Hong Kong Faces Renewed Pressure Over Its Housing Polly Hui 2011

  • Enter our old friend Beacon Towers, the eight-story Harlem building that offered a $300/month cash “stimulus package” to buyers last summer.

    2010 May « 2010

  • Residents sobbed outside the ruins of one flattened eight-story building, hoping that missing relatives would be found.

    Turkey Earthquake 2011: 7.2 Quake Near Ercis Causes Death, Damage 2011

  • Those first few steps were taken on the eighth floor of an eight-story building in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, where Sean Larkin manages the business affairs of the Black Eyed Peas, and where a counselor named Dr. Betty Wyman was waiting for me.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Enter our old friend Beacon Towers, the eight-story Harlem building that offered a $300/month cash “stimulus package” to buyers last summer.

    Harlem Development Still Paying Buyers to Move There « 2010

  • In Dublin, work on new commercial projects has ground to a halt, leaving jobs unfinished, including the planned eight-story headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank Corp.,

    Bank Aid Rankles Irish Voters Neil Shah 2010

  • Fewer than 100 seven-story and eight-story walk-ups remain in New York City, according to data compiled for The Wall Street Journal by PropertyShark.com.

    A Walk-Up Bargain Laura Kusisto 2011

  • The eight-story building was beautiful, with white glazed terra cotta tiles framing the nine bays of Chicago-style windows and all of it topped with a scrolled pediment and a Renaissance Revival clock.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • The eight-story, $44 million complex would have more than a million square feet of space, sixteen high-speed elevators, a cafeteria to serve 1,400 at a time, a labyrinth of pneumatic tubes and conveyor trays to whisk secret documents from office to office, and a freestanding, dome-shaped auditorium to seat five hundred.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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