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Murakami and other city officials were trained to evacuate to the second floor, but the 40-foot wall of water that Murakami saw approaching was threatening to swallow the entire three-story structure.

They sit at modest desks at opposite ends of a large open newsroom; on the second floor is a small hall where the company used to hold community forums and concerts but now mostly sits empty.

From the second floor, you’re looking down on the neighborhood through the upper branches of the lot’s few remaining trees.

“People want their second floor much higher up, to be removed from the street, for more privacy,” he said.

The second floor has a 250-seat theater and two large screening rooms.