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Friday, January 11, 2013

Washington's Economic Boom, Financed by You

Washington's Economic Boom, Financed by You

Annie Lowrey, NYT Mag
One damp morning this winter, Jim Abdo was looking through architectural renderings at his office in Logan Circle, one of the many leafy Washington neighborhoods anchored by a statue of a long-dead guy riding a horse. Abdo got his start as a property developer by buying decrepit buildings and modernizing them, and his headquarters shows off the trick. The adjoining storefronts had been stripped bare and rebuilt, all warm wood and cold glass with exposed brick and beams. It looked like a Brooklyn design studio or a Silicon Valley start-up, or at least how those offices might look in a Nancy...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/01/11/washington039s_economic_boom_financed_by_you_299552.html
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