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Sanguinet, Staats, Hedrick, and Gottlieb. By the late 1920s, real estate development had intensified around the building and many prominent professionals were leasing office space there. John William Neal assumed the chairmanship of Second
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February 2010. The office building had 204,000 square feet of rentable space. A
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