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Tour a Fairy-Tale Tower in the Italian Countryside
The story of Torre del Falco—the Tower of the Falcon—begins in Italy’s hilly Tuscia region north of Rome. There, on the outskirts of the town of Ronciglione, Paola Igliori returned some years ago to her family’s estate, Villa Lina, a sprawling and picturesque property surrounded by the Cimini, a range of volcanic mountains. Igliori, a writer and filmmaker who had been living in New York City, inherited a 1920s villa, built on the remains of one erected more than two centuries earlier; an 18th-century botanical garden; and a symbolic landscape created in the 1930s by the noted architect Raffaele de Vico. She now lives there full-time and has spent years…
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New 12-story Uptown office tower lands first tenant
A new office tower on the rise in Uptown has its first tenant, a firm already very familiar with the project site. Chicago Title will occupy 20,000 square feet of office space in The Quad, the 12-story tower Dallas-based Stream Realty Partners is building at Howell and Routh streets in Uptown. The global title insurer has had 15,600 square feet of office space in 2828 Routh St., an existing building on the same block as The Quad, for more than a decade. It will leave that space once the new building is complete. Clark Pulliam, director of operations and counsel at Chicago Title, said the new office development will make…
