He added that several corporate tenants who had postponed expansion plans after the stock-market collapse would soon decide to lease more space.

On Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, as the rest of the world mourned the stock-market collapse, I celebrated.

In 1988, despite the stock-market collapse the October before, these earnings were $50 million to $200 million.

"You wouldn't necessarily see an immediate impact" from the stock-market collapse, said Kenneth T. Mayland, an economist at the First Pennsylvania Bank.

First came the stock-market collapse of October 1987, which led to the loss over the last two years of 25,000 financial-service jobs.

Nonetheless, she said, they were undeterred by the stock-market collapse and its potential impact on office vacancies.

What's hard to gauge is the meaning of the interest in the new restaurants, a boom that has not been seen since before the stock-market collapse in 1987.

But what about the stock-market collapse of 2002?

Another great industrialized region is in the midst of the greatest stock-market collapse in its history, with companies that have $20 billion in sales trading at two times earnings.

Housing construction rebounded last month after dropping sharply in October, the Government reported today, giving some indication that builders were not dissuaded by October's stock-market collapse.