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- ↑ "Atlanta Skyscraper Slides Into Foreclosure Archived 2009-04-10 at the Wayback Machine " at WSB-TV
- ↑ "Hey, wanna buy a really big building?" at Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- ↑ "River Place office park posted for foreclosure" at Austin American-Statesman
