Archive for February, 2008

Luxury & Yachts - 6th International Luxury Exhibition

Living well is an art. Luxury is being aware that we are the artists. This is what the French philosopher Thierry Paquot, who is a well-known luxury expert and connoisseur, affirms. This thought is also shared by Luciano Coin, versatile entrepreneur from Vicenza, who conceived and created the first luxury show in the world at [...]

Monday, February 25th, 2008 In Travel Tags: , , , ,

Kauai condo prices rise, homes fall

Condominium prices on Kauai rose last month on flat sales, while both single-family home prices and sales fell.
The median price of a condo on the Garden Isle in January was $586,000, up from $455,810 during the same month last year. That price was based on 20 units sold, the same as January 2007, according to [...]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 In Condo, Real Estate Tags: , , ,

Condo Hotels Rising in the Philippines

Beth Collingz, Marketing director for PLC International Marketing Networks, which is exclusively marketing the Lancaster Suites and Lancaster – The Atrium Hotel Condominiums in Metro Manila, said “buyers are investors in hotel-condos, a real estate product that combines the flexibility of ownership of a condo in a hotel setting. Popular in the United States, Europe [...]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 In Condo, Hotel, Real Estate Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Controversial condo project put on hold

A controversial condo project is off the table - at least for now. Owners of an 18-acre site along Colonial Boulevard and Metro Parkway now say they’re having second thoughts.
La Vita would have featured several eight-story high-rises, which the Port Authority opposed because of how close they would have been to the Page Field Airport.
Monday [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 In Condo, Real Estate Tags: , , ,

DOMINO CONDO PLAN UN’SIGN’ED

Hold the sugar.
That’s the message developers of the old Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn appear to be sending with their renderings of the $1.2 billion waterfront condo complex.
The plan to convert the former Williamsburg refinery leaves out the iconic illuminated sign that reads, “Domino Sugar,” which generations have grown accustomed to seeing off [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 In Condo Tags: , , , , , ,

New look planned for proposed hotel on Tacoma’s old brewery site

The developers of a proposed 160-room hotel on the site of Tacoma’s old Columbia-Heidelberg Brewery say they’re redesigning the hotel after its preliminary design failed to impress historic preservationists on a city board.
Han Kim, principal at Seattle’s Hotel Concepts, said Monday that he’s hired Albany, Ore., architect Don Johnson to modify the initial design to [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 In Hotel, Real Estate Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

IHI, Corinthia to develop, run five-star hotel in London

International Hotel Investments p.l.c. (IHI), together with Libyan Foreign Investment Company (LFICO) and Istithmar Hotels FZE (Istithmar) of Dubai, acting as a joint-venture, have entered into an Exclusivity and Development Agreement with Crown Estate of the UK to develop a 283- bedroom deluxe five-star hotel and a suite of adjoining luxury apartments in a prestigious [...]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 In Hotel, Real Estate Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,