For Kushner, known mostly as a suburban residential developer, the purchase was part of a diversification strategy.

She said the difficulties of suburban developers are particularly severe because most started work on office projects on speculation.

The early suburban developers did not put much emphasis on creating neighbourhoods, though in time many of these areas developed strong communities.

"Being able to go into a major urban center requires another level of expertise, and a lot of suburban developers just don't have it," he said.

Theearlier willingness of suburban developers to accept auctions as a marketing tool has given them an edge.

That's because suburban developers, after a long building spree, were already cutting back sharply on construction before the crash.

Wary tenants and empty buildings are producing great anxiety among suburban developers.

Many suburban developers are scrounging elsewhere for space users.

We solve problems creatively during design and construction and don't follow all the home magazines and the suburban developers.

He began designing upper-middle-class houses for suburban developers, and in 1893 got a break that defined his later career.