For Flushing and Its Waterfront, Time to Think Big

Other Retailers Find Ex-Blockbuster Stores Just Right

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

Retailers are finding former Blockbuster stores attractive because they are usually located in profitable high-traffic shopping areas.

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A Corporate Campus Made to Mirror Facebook

By FRED A. BERNSTEIN

In renovating its new headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is going for collaborative, inclusive and just a little bit gritty.

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Rebuilding Downtown From the Ground Up

By SUSAN DIESENHOUSE

Quincy, Mass., plans to raze its downtown area and completely rebuild it. The project will be initially financed by a private developer and later by a city bond sale.

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Glimmer of Better Days for Manhattan Offices

By JULIE SATOW

With the economy improving, Manhattan landlords are exerting more control of the commercial real estate market.

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Chinatown Mobilizes to Enhance Its Outside Appeal

By CLAIRE WILSON

A new business improvement district financed by local building owners will supply resources for public safety, new signage and marketing.

The Appraisal

To Fight Discrimination, a Long List of No-Nos

By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY

To comply with the Fair Housing Act, brokers have lists of phrases to avoid, including “no Appalachians.”

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Douglas C. Yearley Jr.

By VIVIAN MARINO

Mr. Yearley is the new chief executive of Toll Brothers Inc., one of the country’s largest builders of luxury homes, with developments in 19 states.

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Despite Vacancies, Office Developers Bet on Miami

By TERRY PRISTIN

Two new office buildings are up and a third is on its way despite a high vacancy rate and a 12 percent unemployment rate.

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Idle Land Finds a Purpose as Farms for Solar Power

By ALISON GREGOR

Residents and businesses are finding that property shunned by developers have become good spots to install solar panels to power nearby buildings.

Harlem Is Losing a Piece of Clinton

By MANNY FERNANDEZ

The William J. Clinton Foundation is moving some of its offices to Lower Manhattan, but Bill Clinton’s office as a former president will remain in Harlem.

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Prefabricated Tower May Rise at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards

By CHARLES V. BAGLI

The 34-story building, with roughly 400 apartments, would comprise more than 900 modules that would be hauled to Atlantic Yards, lifted into place by crane and bolted together.