Wilmington is famous for being HQ of many US financial institutions, and dozens of foreign banks have their US headquarters there- ING, HSBC, etc etc. No usury laws, corporate-friendly legal framework, and access to lots of limestone, granite and glass. Downtown is only about eight or ten square blocks, at most.
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[The Brandywine Building]
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[The Grand Opera House - one of the largest and oldest cast-iron facade buildings still extant. Due to narrow streets, no way to get farther back. I was in a restaurant doorway as it was...
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[Forgot to find out what building this was...]
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[Wilmington Savings Fund Society is a bank that started back in the early 19th Century, frugal, very conservative, then by 1990 got hopped up on the M&A craze, nearly went bankrupt, and closed a bunch of offices in areas they never should have been. Recovered a bit now. They share this building with Verizon.
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[From the parking garage I used:]
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