His crowning achievement was to be The Zenith, a sixty-story monolith. There was only one obstacle: a crumbling, ivy-covered clock tower owned by Sarah Vance, a retired librarian. The tower sat exactly where Elias’s grand lobby was meant to be.
He tried to buy her out, but she refused. He tried to intimidate her with noise complaints and construction debris, but she remained. Finally, Elias used his connections to "discover" a structural flaw in the tower’s foundation. He pushed through an emergency demolition order, giving Sarah twenty-four hours to vacate. Poetic Justice
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