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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE March 30, 2011 Frankfurt Longs for 'Mainhatten' Era Office-Market Activity Begins to Return Financial Capital to Golden Age By WILLIAM BOSTON | Special to the WSJ Prime Frankfurt office-building values are still 20% below 2007 peak levels and vacancy rates continue to exceed 15%. But you would never know that from the amount of investment and development activity beginning to take place. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703461504576230511567808374.html

February 25, 2011, 10:59 AM Frankfurt’s ‘Mainhattan’ Reaches for the Skies By Tom Fairless Frankfurt’s landmark towers are gleaming anew. This week, the last of 2,800 staff moved back into Deutsche Bank’s 155-meter towers, nicknamed “debit” and “credit,” after a three-year refurbishment. Everything bar the concrete skeleton is new. The pair will be formally launched at a party on Thursday. http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/02/25/frankfurts-mainhattan-reaches-for-the-skies/