What’s the last thing you want to see circling around a bank these days? I mean, other than, like, Ken Lewis’ resume or something? Probably vultures. But, in downtown Orlando, they’ve cozied up to the Suntrust building (shown above) and also to 55 West, a nearby project that was built to be luxury condos but repurposed as apartments, which remain mostly vacant:
Dozens of vultures are making a mess of the rooftop and balconies of 55 West, a luxury high-rise condo in the heart of downtown Orlando. Only a fraction of the building’s units are occupied by people, but a group of the scavenging birds have decided to make the building home.
Jaimini Nayee works on the 29th floor of the SunTrust tower, another downtown building plagued by vultures. She said she can see the vultures swarming around 55 West from her window.
A bad portent for the banking industry and for multifamily real estate?
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Bill // Feb 18, 2010 at 10:42 am
Sounds like a setup for a good horror movie.
Alyx // Feb 18, 2010 at 10:44 am
LOL. Do you ever think about anything other than horror movies?
lavacake // Feb 18, 2010 at 11:03 am
Anybody ever check to see if there are any dead bodies up there?
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Judy Halston // Apr 30, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Vultures circling #SunTrust. Payback time i guess, for all the property owners they scammed. First they give loans, then hire contractors that won’t finish their job, leave the houses unfinished then foreclosure to steal their equities. Fleecing American Homeowners like they did to http://twitter.com/catinflorida as was done to Cat Brooks FL homowner