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South Florida businesses Creatively coping with chaos.
Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 27-OCT-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Christina Hoag And Patrick Danne
Oct. 27--Companies across South Florida started assessing damage to their offices and equipment on Wednesday while trying to keep business going with mobile phones and makeshift digs.
"We're 20-odd people sitting on the floor here with cellphones," said William Holly, president of Miami's Holly Real Estate, which had to decamp from the Espirito Santo Plaza on Brickell Avenue to three empty apartments the company owns.
Many of South Florida's blue-chip corporate residents in the region's two key business districts -- downtown Fort Lauderdale and Miami's Brickell Avenue -- have been ramping up operations from alternative sites as officials try to get a handle on companies' losses.
About 35 percent of Fort Lauderdale's downtown office space "is not functional for use," estimated Broward County Economic Development Director Norm Taylor.
"We are starting to get some sense of what's happening with...
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