Developers are high on lower Manhattan.

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Byline: Lore Croghan

Sep. 26--When the sad, shrouded hulk that used to be the Deutsche Bank tower is finally torn down, 35 apartments in Larry Devine's condo project will have a full frontal view of Ground Zero.

But some potential buyers actually prefer those apartments over the others at 120 Greenwich St. -- specifically because of the view. Devine knows. They've told him so.

"You'll be able to see all the way to Tribeca -- across the memorial and Calatrava's PATH station," he said. "We expect demand to be the strongest for this view."

Devine's condo project is one of a pair of private developments getting under way on a block shadowed by the doomed Deutsche Bank tower. No matter that the demolition of the poisonously polluted skyscraper is expected to take about a year -- there will be apartment buyers aplenty, judging from a strong response to...

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