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Trick or Treat

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Published on October 25, 2007

She exists, all right. I met her once, when Reeder was trying to convince me that he was, in his words, "absolutely retired." That was a lie.

The View got swankified in downtown's condo-building binge. The city's Economic Development Corporation recognized the conversion with one of its Cornerstone Awards.

The stately old Brookfield Building, meanwhile, went downhill after Reeder's pal Dick Turner took over. First the office tenants fled, complaining about bad service. Flooding caused by a burst pipe drove out the remaining ground-floor merchants, including my barber (“Water Worked,” March 16, 2006).

With its chained doors and grimy windows, the Brookfield Building looks forgotten. I hope that members of the City Council remember it when Reeder or his minions show up on beggar's night.

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