So 14,296 is almost 15,000? That's some pretty big rounding there! How much more attention do you think this article receives than if it simply said something like "over 14K"?
I expect a special Thursday afternoon print edition of the Merc to delve more into this fascinating story. That a overly lavish business in a highly volatile industry located in an condo glutted section of the city decimated by the mortgage crisis in a spot where another overly lavish business once stood and failed, is failing, is simply shocking.