In a city brimming with great Thai restaurants, one of the best is another former warehouse space in the neighborhood, Longrain, known for authentic, vivid dishes such as whole red snapper in red curry sauce.

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National Theatre props and costumes are usually stored in a warehouse in Brixton, a dusty space that holds more than 100, 000 items.

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Experts said there has been an uptick in demand for warehouse space since the recession, as online retailers and fuel-conscious companies generally look to store their products near major population centers.

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But Mr. Tillis said finding space to expand was difficult and the company's warehouse space was spread out over three facilities in nearby Bayonne, N.

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The company has partly backtracked on its platform-only model by acquiring land in major cities to build warehouse space for distributors.

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Vivian and Shelly lived in downtown Los Angeles, in an industrial space that belonged, nominally, to a ribbon factory, whose warehouse was attached.

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How's this for clumsy goods handling: Warehouse managers can't decide in advance how to allocate storage space or assign labor to unpack and store shipments because, in some situations, until a container is unsealed, no one knows whether it contains glass ornaments or dining room tables (the containers aren't marked).

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The RSC plans include scaling down the auditorium inside from 1, 000 seats to between 200 and 300 seats, making space for two new rehearsal rooms and storage for 30, 000 costumes, which are currently kept in a warehouse.

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