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Reports that Rebuild Downtown Our Town (RDOT), a community advocacy group for Lower Manhattan, has issued a position paper recommending several strategies for attracting retail to the neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan as a stimulus to growth. Identification of shopping districts, retail destinations, and retail corridors by RDOT; Suggestions by RDOT to avoid siphoning retail traffic away from surrounding neighborhoods.

Several stellar Japanese architects recently converged on Manhattan, New York, for a symposium at the Japan Society called "Technology and Tradition in Contemporary Japanese Architecture," co-organized by the periodical "Architectural Record." The conference was launched with a lecture by Fumihiko Maki, recently appointed architect for a new United Nations building and a tower at Ground Zero. The focus then passed to younger architects, including Ware Kishi , Kengo Kuma, and the ebullient Jun Aoki. Aoki, Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima are rising architects. Each has built or is about to build in Manhattan: Aoki's work for Vuitton on Fifth Avenue, Ban's Paper Arch at the Museum of Modern Art in 2000, and Sejima's New Museum envisaged for the Bowery.

The article reports on the condition of transportation in Manhattan, New York. On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a highway cuts off access between the city and the river. There is an ever-growing need to unite rail and roads, airports and transit, and to make each mode fit more gracefully into cities. But the political and bureaucratic barriers are formidable. The bills will be very hard fought because transportation money is scarce, the economy tough. But still efforts are being taken to improve the transportation facility.

The article reports on an investigation on the collapse of a Kodiak tower crane on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City, on May 30, 2008. It notes that nearly a year before the accident, China-based RTR Bearing Co. sent an electronic-mail (e-mail) to New York Crane & Equipment Corp., stating that they do not have confidence on a custom bearing assemby the crane owner ordered. It states that federal safety officials did not find violations in the accident, which killed two workers, but city prosecutors are still investigating criminal charges.

Criticizes architectural design layouts proposed by several architects for the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan in New York City. Influence of guidelines set by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation on the proposed designs; Element of cloning in designs of the structure; Analysis of design features of the layout proposed by architect Daniel Libeskind.

The article features the Davis & Warshow Inc. which has won the 2009 Showroom of the Year contest for its Architecture and Design (A & D) Building located in Manhattan, New York. It says that the building comprises of 40 showrooms featuring various type of products. It adds that the new Kohler Premier Showroom, an evolution of its successful Premier Showroom program, has been incorporated into its enlarged A & D Building showroom.

The article reports on a 21 million U.S. dollar renovation project at the Grand Central Station in midtown Manhattan, New York City. The project will add a new employee facility and public tennis courts to the station's annex. Building information modeling services are provided by Ziggurat Systems with its Before You Build (B4UB) software. F.J. Sciame Construction Co. is also involved in the project.

The article presents company profiles of New York City, Manhattan-based retailer Duane Reade Inc. It notes that the company owns more than 250 drugstores in the city as well as across the state. The company aims to reposition itself to meet the needs of New Yorkers which includes redesigning its stores, its brand mark, and its private label packaging. Acting chief marketing officer Joe Jackman mentions the company's effective strategy to meet its remarkable transformation.

The article presents a case study on the construction of New York Times Building in Manhattan, New York City. It has a 1.5 million square feet of premium Class-A office space and 21,000 square feet (sq. ft.) of retail on the ground floor with 700 feet of street frontage on a 79,000-sq. ft. parcel. It was designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in cooperation with FXFOWLE Architects.