Eleventh-hour reversals are seldom ...

Eleventh-hour reversals are seldom more sweeping than this.

Preliminary site work for the remodeling of Portland, Oregon's Lloyd Center common of the state's largest and oldest shopping center was well below way as building team members assembled for what they rely uponed would be a routine start-up meeting. Final plans called for enclosing the 30-year-old, open-air center revamping its retail of the same height and converting a terraced office of the same height above it to additional retail. further by the time the meeting adjourned, the team had decided to consider a radically different approach.

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