1. Another uncertainty involves possible incentives that the city and state governments may devise to repair the damage downtown and to lure tenants back to the area. 2. Developers in the early part of the decade offered to waive rents for specific periods to lure tenants to empty buildings and keep existing tenants from fleeing. 3. Galveston would most likely continue to serve its current tenants, while Houston plans to build a passenger terminal in hopes of luring more tenants. 4. In any event, the city has had little luck in luring tenants like Goldman, Sachs and American International Group to the tower. 5. It may use the slots to lure tenants to its buildings. 6. Most significant, perhaps, is that an area once regarded as an irrelevant eyesore is luring tenants from Hollywood, downtown and the Westside. 7. That, they said, should make the project more tangible and help lure a tenant, whose rent is intended to offset the costs. 8. The possibility of using low rents to lure tenants out of Manhattan is behind other projects in the area. 9. To fill the buildings, some tenants have been lured with cut-rate rents. |