Crain's Cleveland Business articles from June 2004

Crain's Cleveland Business archives from June 2004

On the cover.(News)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... West Side Market, one of the country's largest indoor/outdoor markets, began operating at the corner of West 25th and Lorain in 1859. The land it occupied, across the street from its current location, was deeded to Ohio City in 1840 with the...

Online survey says: Are the recent terrorist alerts altering your travel plans for the summer?(News)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Percentages based on 56 respondents. 84%: No. 7%: Yes, I'm staying closer to home. 5%: Yes, I'm staying at home. 4%: What terrorist alerts? SOURCE: www.crainscleveland.com

By the numbers.(Special Report)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Figures show that people are living, working and staying active longer. 35.9 million people age 65 or older were living in the United States as of July 1, 2003. 4.5 million people age 65 or older are still employed. $120,000 is...

Flyin' high.(Opinion)(Akron-Canton Airport)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... It has been nearly three years since the terrorist attacks that hit New York and Washington, and most airlines and airports still are feeling the aftereffects of those deadly acts. Not among them is Akron-Canton Airport, which is one of the...

Ohio KePro tries to up quality of care.(Special Report)
June 7, 2004... Byline: CHRISSY KADLECK From its office suite in Seven Hills, Ohio KePro is charged with a far-reaching goal: improve the quality of care and protect the rights of the state's 1.8 million Medicare beneficiaries. Ohio KePro, founded in...

Gambling still bad bet for downtown.(Opinion)
June 7, 2004... Byline: Brian Tucker For the life of me, I cannot understand why normally reasonable people are jumping on the gambling bandwagon. It won't save downtown Cleveland; in fact, it could make things worse. I am so tired of hearing folks...

Reporters' Notebook; Behind the scenes with Crain's writers.(The Insider)(News Briefs)
June 7, 2004... Local rubber mixer key ingredient in TV show * When The History Channel takes a break from endless re-runs of World War II documentaries, it airs a fascinating series about technological innovations called "Modern Marvels.'' This week's...

On the Job; Carol Whitlatch, Assistant director, Benjamin Rose's Margaret Blenkner Research Institute.(Special Report)
June 7, 2004... Byline: JULIE PAVELICH Carol Whitlatch, assistant director of Benjamin Rose's Margaret Blenkner Research Institute in Cleveland, cares about the mental health of elderly patients - and their caregivers. Thanks to a nearly $1 million...

Going Places.(People)
June 7, 2004... Job Changes Construction REGENCY CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC.: Randy E. Paine to vice president and principal-in-charge of preconstruction services; Terry E. Tesmer to vice president and principal-in-charge, construction operations. ...

Landerhaven plaza buyers planning office condos.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: STAN BULLARD Landerhaven Office Plaza, a three-building office complex on Landerhaven Drive in Mayfield Heights, has been sold for the first time, and the new owners plan to convert at least one-third of the complex to office...

IMG memo heightens speculation of a sale.(International Management Group)
June 7, 2004... Byline: HENRY GOMEZ At Cleveland-based sports marketing and management powerhouse IMG, "everything's on the table'' - an ambiguous buzz phrase from a company spokeswoman that acknowledges, but doesn't trumpet the notion, that the company...

Save a valuable industry - agriculture.(Opinion)
June 7, 2004... Byline: AMALIE LIPSTREU Amid all the concern over the loss of rural landscapes, there is an opportunity to meet the challenge and reinvest in rural and urban communities, and to promote and preserve the cultural, historic, ecological and...

Letter: A brilliant life well lived.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 7, 2004... * Thank you for giving my husband, Bart Wolstein, his due in your May 17 editorial, "Bye, Bart.'' I simply wish to thank the thousands from the Cleveland community, the country and yes, the world, for the outpouring of love and admiration...

The Big Issue: Should the United States bring back the draft?(Opinion)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... Jane Prasse Mentor My answer is no draft, no war. I'm fundamentally opposed to war as a rule. There are better ways to solve problems. People need to take time away from their own lives to put some thought into other ways to solve...

Short Takes.(Briefs)(senior citizens of america)
June 7, 2004... * Move over, Ruben: A talent search will launch this month to find Northeast Ohio's most entertaining seniors. That's right, Somerset Point Retirement Community in Shaker Heights is launching a "Senior Idols Talent Search'' with the hope of...

The Week in Quotes.(News)
June 7, 2004... "This was an issue of going with a more advanced technology that we previously didn't have.'' - Jim McNamara, spokesman, Volvo Truck North America. Page 4 "As a disease progresses, the caregiver goes through all different transitions....

Late News.
June 7, 2004... OHIO SAVINGS HEADS NORTH OF THE BORDER Ohio Savings Bank has gone international. The financial institution last week opened a commercial and construction lending office in Markham, Ontario. Senior executive vice president Frank Bolognia...

Keeping the caring; Job retention is just one hurdle in combating a work force shortage.(Special Report)
June 7, 2004

Business cooking at Bodycote; Plant upgrades boosting capacity, employment at heat treater.
June 7, 2004... Byline: DAVID BENNETT Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. will spend nearly $2 million in the next two years - on top of the $2 million it invested during the past 18 months - on new furnaces and quality control equipment for its plants in...

Council's project list reflects frustration; Polensek unhappy with mayor's economic efforts.
June 7, 2004... Byline: JAY MILLER An unprecedented effort by Cleveland City Council to jump-start a variety of neighborhood projects is pointing out a frustration among some civic leaders with the pace and focus of the Campbell administration's economic...

What's New.(The Insider)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2004... COMPANY: Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co., Glenwillow PRODUCT: Dirt Devil Cruiser vacuum cleaner Royal's new bagless, upright cleaner boasts what the company calls a "space-age retro'' look. The Cruiser has an electronic...

The Week: May 31 - June 6.(The Insider)
June 7, 2004... The big story: The Cleveland Clinic tabbed Dr. Delos "Toby'' Cosgrove, a respected heart surgeon and a prodigious inventor, as its next chairman and CEO. Dr. Cosgrove, 63, will replace Dr. Floyd Loop, who announced the search for his successor...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
June 7, 2004... Golfer's Pain Relief, a cream developed by Sami International Inc. of Mentor-on-the-Lake, sells at www.GolfersPainRelief.com. An incorrect web site was published on page 21 of the May 17 golf section.

Groovy office space grabbing attention; Warehouse District seeing low vacancy rate.(Insight)
June 7, 2004... Byline: STAN BULLARD To find takers for space in downtown Cleveland's office market, it helps to be groovy. Case in point: Rick Szekelyi, chief financial officer and executive producer of Crystal Mountain Productions Ltd., said a key...

Dust settles after senior living shakeout; Construction sees renewed interest.(Special Report)
June 7, 2004... Byline: EILEEN BEAL Last year the wordmeisters at Merriam-Webster added the definition for "assisted living'' to the 11th edition of their Collegiate Dictionary. However, just because Merriam-Webster defined assisted living as...

Nice gift.(Opinion)(Case Western Reserve University )
June 7, 2004... Case Western Reserve University couldn't have gotten a nicer present for the 20th anniversary of its Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations than the $6 million gift announced last week from the center's namesake, the Mandel family, through...

Ohio ICE to promote automation, electronics; Organization's first conference scheduled for June 29 at CSU.(News)(Ohio Instruments, Controls and Electronics)
June 7, 2004... Byline: TOM JACKSON Companies in Northeast Ohio that provide automated brains, eyes and hands for manufacturing plants here and across the globe have joined with local engineering schools to promote and advance their industry segment...

Bendix set to boost its ranks; Elyria company adding 30 jobs to help support new anti-lock brake biz.(News)
June 7, 2004... Byline: DAVID BENNETT Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC of Elyria, which makes brake systems for trucks and buses, is hunting for candidates to fill 30 engineering and support jobs this year as it gains momentum in the commercial truck...

OK ruling.(Opinion)
June 14, 2004... Perhaps the best compliment that can be paid to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for its ruling last week on FirstEnergy Corp.'s proposed electric rate plan is that no one is entirely pleased with the outcome. We hope it's an indication...

The city's salesman; Roche has big plans for both Cleveland and the CVB.(Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland)
June 14, 2004... Byline: HENRY GOMEZ The interim label is off Dennis Roche, the new president of the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland. But very much on is the pressure to restore respectability to the image-battered CVB and to improve...

No place like home; Cleveland tops for high-end housing bargains.(News)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... For years, a big pitch Cleveland-area employers have made to job candidates from outside the market is that you can get a lot of house for the money in Northeast Ohio. BusinessWeek confirms that they're not blowing smoke, at least as far as the...

Courtyard by Marriott set for Stow.(News)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: STAN BULLARD In a partnership with The Farris Co., a real estate developer based in Cuyahoga Falls, Concord Hospitality Enterprises Inc. has booked a new hotel project in Stow even though it has checked out for Raleigh, N.C. A...

Whole Health on-site clinic biz taking off with large employers.(Health Care)
June 14, 2004... Byline: SHANNON MORTLAND For Continental Airlines, opening on-site health care clinics for employees at its four hub operations, including the one in Cleveland, was a matter of dollars and sense. Employees no longer had to leave work...

Letter: Full insurance story isn't told.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 14, 2004... * I was surprised by some of the content of the May 31, Page One story, "COSE seeks aid battling hikes.'' I am not surprised that Crain's Cleveland Business would talk about the increases in health insurance rates, as it is definitely a top...

Sizzlin' businesses; Entrepreneur's annual list features the fastest-growing companies.(News)
June 14, 2004... Three Northeast Ohio companies are hot stuff, according to Entrepreneur magazine. The magazine's annual Hot 100 listing of the country's fastest-growing small businesses includes Mirifex Systems LLC of Strongsville (No. 35), a management...

Sales tax project will make collecting easier; Database would help boost state's revenues from remote sales.
June 14, 2004... Byline: TOM JACKSON Fred M. Crosby is required to collect sales taxes when he sells an item at Crosby Furniture Co., the Cleveland furniture store at 12435 St. Clair Ave. he has owned for 43 years. He thinks web sites that ship furniture...

What's New.(The Insider)(American Greetings Corp.)(LESCO Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... COMPANY: American Greetings Corp., Brooklyn PRODUCT: Father's Day cards, 2004 The greeting card giant's new line for Father's Day evokes patterns, fashion, language and icons of the 1950s and 1960s. One specific card theme, available...

Brunswick's risky business rising.(Small Business)(Brunswick Cos.)
June 14, 2004... Byline: DEANNA BOTTAR Sometimes it pays to leave risky business to the experts. That's what more companies are doing these days - outsourcing their risk management departments to Fairlawn-based Brunswick Cos. To meet the growing...

Some ERC companies to see single-digit rise in premiums.(Health Care)(Employers Resource Council )
June 14, 2004... Byline: SHANNON MORTLAND For the second year in a row, nearly half the midsize companies that buy health insurance through the Employers Resource Council of Cleveland will see single-digit premium increases. Although ERC president...

Revving up revenues; Local companies key to jump-starting Grand Prix.(Small Business)
June 14, 2004... Byline: DENISE MELILLI Small businesses in Cleveland are being told it's time to rev up and go racing. The Champ Car World Series is offering smaller businesses a chance to link up to the high-powered world of open wheel racing through...

Going Places.(People)
June 14, 2004... Job Changes Engineering WADE-TRIM: Jordan C. McCormack to project engineer. Financial Services CENTURY BUSINESS SERVICES INC.: Kathryn Louttit to corporate counsel; Jeffrey Nischwitz to vice president, business development....

Grand Openings.(Small Business)(Directory)
June 14, 2004... Just Like Mom's Restaurant 3030 Superior Ave. E, Cleveland 44114 Small, quiet restaurant serves seafood and soul food dishes. Local delivery. Open until 4 a.m. 216-685-5555 justlikemoms3030@sbcglobal.net Executive...

Plastics expo to showcase latest advances.(News)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Plastics companies, mold makers and industrial designers will converge this month on the International Exposition Center in Cleveland for a combination of events that will showcase the latest plastics and tooling technology and will provide...

Lighting biz aglow in new space.(News)
June 14, 2004... Byline: JULIE POST Barry and Susie Levett, owners of The House of Lights in Mayfield Heights, had become tired of ducking to avoid ceiling lighting fixtures that hung too low to the ground in their store. So, after 32 years of lowering...

Companies can keep court ruling from causing injury.(Small Business)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Patricia Weisberg Thanks to a minor incident in a small rural elementary school six years ago, Ohio employers today must exercise extreme caution before discharging an employee who has been injured on the job. A lawsuit arising...

Guide employees with job blueprint.(Small Business)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Hugh Fisher Realizing the full potential of your work force is on every small business owner's wish list. After all, employees' day-to-day behavior directly affects the bottom line. To do this: Change the way you think about...

Morning Journal reaches out to Latino audience.(News)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: HENRY GOMEZ For years, finding a Spanish-speaking paper in Northeast Ohio meant finding an underground or alternative publication tucked away in a family-owned Mexican restaurant. Until now. The Morning Journal, Lorain's daily...

The Big Issue: What is Ronald Reagan's legacy as president?(Opinion)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Chris Lenahan Avon Lake He ended the Cold War. He defeated the Evil Empire and brought them down. WARREN ROSMAN Cleveland He served as a positive force in America after the decade of the `70s, which was a negative time....

Simulator to give docs virtual practice.(Small Business)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Byline: SHANNON PETTYPIECE Two Cleveland companies are developing a web-based software program to enable doctors to sharpen their techniques before trying them out on patients. Multiweb Communications Inc. and Technology Solutions...

Short Takes.(Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... * HUMMING ALONG: Central Cadillac Hummer on Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland recently reopened after a $4.5 million renovation and expansion, including a new showroom. The dealership, which was founded 62 years ago, sells new and used Cadillac and...

Stem cell center grows its first spinoff; Arteriocyte developing technology that helps regenerate blood vessels.(News)
June 14, 2004... Byline: SHANNON PETTYPIECE Cleveland's newest stem cell company, Arteriocyte Inc., is moving closer to growing out of the lab and into the marketplace with its first nugget of seed money. Arteriocyte, which has developed a method to...

Tyco taps Cleveland's Landau to give plastics unit a boost.(Tyco International Ltd., Landau Public Relations)
June 14, 2004... Byline: HENRY GOMEZ Embattled consumer products marketer Tyco International Ltd. has chosen Cleveland's Landau Public Relations to mount a media push aimed at boosting its big plastics and adhesives division. Howard Landau, president...

The Week: June 6-13.(The Insider)
June 14, 2004... The big story: Northeast Ohio consumers could get a break on their electric bills if competition for their business takes hold under a plan state regulators approved last week. Regulators authorized power suppliers to bid to provide electricity...

Bankruptcies.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... The following businesses recently have filed for protection from creditors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in Cleveland and Akron. Under Chapter 11, a company files a reorganization plan that must be approved by the court. Chapter 7 is a total...

Programs help fix flubs, lower fines.(Small Business)
June 14, 2004... Byline: Peter DeMarco Given the complexity of administering an employee benefit plan, mistakes are inevitable. Yet in the current climate of heightened awareness to corporate governance and fiscal responsibility, there seems to be little...

Reporters' Notebook; Behind the scenes with Crain's writers.(The Insider)
June 14, 2004... Join Elyria's Bendix and see the world * Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC of Elyria has a unique leadership development program that isn't a bad retention tool, either. The maker of brake systems for commercial trucks and buses...

St. Vincent chosen for diabetes affiliate.(News)
June 14, 2004... Byline: SHANNON MORTLAND St. Vincent Charity Hospital will bring a bit of the East Coast to Cleveland come July 1 when it opens an affiliate of the Boston-based Joslin Diabetes Center. To provide the diabetes center with a home, the...

Bar Assn. confronting community's civic issues.
June 14, 2004... Byline: JAY MILLER Concerned about the listless regional economy and what they see as an unfocused approach by government officials toward important communitywide issues, leaders of the Cleveland Bar Association significantly are stepping...

COSE, Neosa merger makes sense.(Council of Smaller Enterprises, )
June 14, 2004... Byline: Brian Tucker Last week's news that the region's leading small business group was merging officially with the area's most visible technology advocacy group might have surprised few people familiar with one or both organizations. In...

PUCO lets price gouging go forward.(Public Utilities Commission of Ohio)
June 14, 2004... Byline: SHARI WEIR For months, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chairman Alan Schriber has been insisting that his motivation in pushing FirstEnergy Corp.'s rate case is to avoid the price-gouging and rate shock that plagued California...

Tax Liens.(News)(Public Notice)
June 14, 2004... The Internal Revenue Service filed tax liens against the following businesses in the Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office. The IRS files a tax lien to protect the interests of the federal government. The lien is a public notice to creditors that...

Smoke-free, breathing easy; With ban possible for city bars, restaurants, others find clean air has benefited their businesses.(Insight)
June 14, 2004... Byline: JULIE POST Budapest Blonde is unlike most bars. Its customers might splurge on a bottle of wine or a specialty martini because they know they won't need to shell out money for dry cleaning after they get home from the smoke-free...

Booming business blowing Air Enterprises past its goal.(News)
June 14, 2004... Byline: DAVID BENNETT Two workers were perched on top of an aluminum panel fastening supports into place as Edward Gaffney Jr. looked on. The managing director of Air Enterprises Inc. of Akron seemed apologetic that one of the workers...

Clinic docs to monitor pacemakers via Internet.(Health Care)
June 14, 2004... Byline: SHANNON PETTYPIECE Home is where the heart is, they say. And, just like the good old days, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic again will make house calls. But instead of visiting patients in-person, doctors will use the Internet...

Late News.(Total Technical Institute )(McLaughlin Refuse Equipment Inc.)
June 14, 2004... YELLOW CAB NABS STAKE IN U.K. TAXI COMPANY * The family that owns Yellow Cab Co. in Cleveland is buying a 28% stake in London's Radio Taxi company. Brian McBride, owner, president and CEO of Yellow Cab, would not disclose how much money he...

Online Survey Says: Do you think the City Council should take a lead in economic development efforts?(News)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Percentages based on 37 respondents. 51%: Yes. The Campbell administration is not getting it done. 30%: No. The city should hire an outside agency to get it done. 19%: No. Economic development is the responsibility of the mayor's...

On the Cover.(Hubbell & Benes)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... In 1902, the West Side Market's original one-story wooden building, built in 1868, became inadequate. The city contracted the Cleveland firm Hubbell & Benes to design a new, $680,000 structure that included an outdoor arcade and large clock...

The key to small business growth.(Small Business)(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Activities small businesses think are beneficial to the growth of their company. 35%: Having or establishing an online presence 30%: Having or obtaining dedicated business e-mail 30%: Inceasing online advertising 19%: Hiring...

The Week in Quotes.(News)
June 14, 2004... "If you're a visitor to Cleveland, you shouldn't have to search around the 31st floor for the office that is supposed to welcome you." - Dennis Roche, president, Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland. Page One "We have...

Right guy.(Opinion)(Dennis Roche)(Changing officials spending habits)
June 21, 2004... The media tempest that arose last year over the spending habits of officials and staffers at the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland cast a dark cloud over the organization. There is a silver lining to the convention bureau story,...

C. Martin Harris.(Special Report)(Information Technology in clinics)
June 21, 2004... Byline: Shannon Pettypiece CIO The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Age: 47 Business: Health care Dr. C. Martin Harris of the Cleveland Clinic works to change the way doctors work and the way patients receive information - one...

Letter: Board undercuts expectations.(Letters)(Chris Corrigan)(Lowered education standards)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... In order to prevent a drastic reduction in the passage rate of Ohio's high school students, the state Board of Education voted June 7 to lower the grading scale for the new Ohio Graduation Test. The old scale required that students...

Bankruptcies.(W.I.N.G.S. Construction Inc.)(Discount Wallcovering Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... The following businesses recently have filed for protection from creditors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in Cleveland and Akron. Under Chapter 11, a company files a reorganization plan that must be approved by the court. Chapter 7 is a total...

Area couple heads to Germany to train leaders for war on terror.(News)(Leadership Development)
June 21, 2004... Byline: JULIE POST Four-star U.S. Army Gen. Burwell B. Bell can't seem to get enough of Strongsville leadership development consultants Ron and Cynthia Archer. While stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, two years ago, Gen. Bell...

Going Places.(People)(Appointments)
June 21, 2004... Job Changes Education CLEVELAND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL: Karl Ertle to president/principal. OBERLIN COLLEGE: David H. Stull to dean, Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Engineering MONTGOMERY WATSON HARZA: Cynthia Collyard to...

Mike Burke.(Special Report)(Trek Diagnostic Systems Inc)(Company Profile)
June 21, 2004... Byline: Deanna Bottar CEO Trek Diagnostic Systems Age: 53 Business: Automated microbiology Mike Burke smiles broadly when he quips about his studies at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., focusing on political science. ...

S.D. Myers plans to sell four units to GE Energy; Separate venture pursues production of an electric car.(General Electric Co)
June 21, 2004... Byline: DAVID BENNETT The GE Energy unit of General Electric Co. has agreed to buy four business units from S.D. Myers Inc. in a move that will get the Tallmadge-based company out of the business of manufacturing and repairing electric...

The Big Issue: Who should John Kerry pick as his vice presidential running mate?(Opinion)(Hillary Clinton)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2004... Chuck Sockol Medina County Hillary Clinton. She's the only one who's as liberal as he is.... I think the Kerry/ Clinton ticket should get 10,000 votes - 5,000 from the Mission District of San Francisco and 5,000 from the Village,...

One heckuva range; NASA Glenn radio technology enables craft headed toward Saturn to transmit images from more than 90 million miles.(News)(John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field)
June 21, 2004... Byline: TOM JACKSON Loud music made the phrase "Cleveland rocks'' famous, but these days the NASA Glenn Research Center is showing off a different sort of amplified power, the kind that can send a radio signal 930 million miles from Saturn...

Wolstein Building's labs invite collaboration among its researchers.(Insight)(Operations Management)
June 21, 2004... Byline: SHANNON PETTYPIECE With inflatable animals perched atop shelves packed with chemicals, a few Christmas lights strung about and an aquarium of pet fish, the is starting to feel like home for its first wave of researchers. Unlike...

County needs more leeway to deliberate.(Opinion)
June 21, 2004... Byline: JAY MILLER Late last month, the Cuyahoga County commissioners spent nearly an hour at one of their weekly meetings discussing the way the county makes certain economic development loans to communities and developers and then...

The Week: June 14 - 20.(The Insider)
June 21, 2004... The big story: The latest Employment Outlook Survey by the Manpower Inc. employment services firm indicates that employers in the Cleveland/Lorain/Elyria area expect to hire at a brisk pace during the third quarter. According to Manpower, 33%...

Stephanie Wernet.(Special Report)
June 21, 2004... Byline: Tom Jackson Vice president of information technology Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Age: 36 Business: Manufacturing Run a search for the word "tire'' on Google, and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. web site is at or...

Tower off market as bids fall short; Owner to renew efforts to boost occupancy rate of BP building.(News)(BP Tower)
June 21, 2004... Byline: STAN BULLARD After none of the bids for 41-story BP Tower came in tall enough to suit it, Equity Office Properties Trust has taken the skyscraper off the market and has revived leasing efforts in the structure, which is 33% vacant....