Real estate entrepreneur Jeanne Rizzotto has a penchant for unusual projects, and creating the Of Course RV Resort LLC (http://www.ofcourservresort.com), the first of many motor coach resorts in the nation to include a designer golf course, is her most unusual endeavor to date. Located just north of the historic mountain town of Red Lodge and [...]
A developer who wants to build an office and condo complex within the Middlesex Fells Reservation is taking an unusual bypass around a stubborn bottleneck in the environmental review process: The Gutierrez Co. is saying it reduced the project so much to satisfy public concerns that it no longer needs state permits to build it.
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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 [...]
Poor Allegra. She’s a writer with a novel already under her belt. She’s good-looking. A free spirit, she lives in a rent-controlled apartment in New York City, unbound by traditional social constraints. But she’s just been dumped by Samantha, her girlfriend of nine months, who has decided she wants a long-term commitment. Since Allegra is [...]
Twenty years ago the hostels of Kathmandu and beach bars of Ko Samui were full of young backpackers scrawling notes in well-thumbed diaries. When they felt the need to communicate with home – perhaps to ask dad to wire some money – they would take a bus to the nearest poste restante office.
Then in the [...]
Every once in awhile we like to take you into the world of the social elite in a little feature we call Social-ist (we know, we are so clever with those -ists!). Last week we attended the preview party of the new Hotel ZaZa. We had been hearing a lot about this swank tank, and [...]
The century-old West Baden Springs Hotel is set to have its grand reopening in two weeks.
The hotel has undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation in conjunction with development of the nearby French Lick casino.
The hotel’s opening is planned for May 23rd, about a week and a half ahead of schedule.
The six-story tall landmark was built in 1902 [...]
Like a cat with nine lives, the venerable downtown Aladdin Hotel will reopen — again — on May 4.
The event will mark the 193-room, 16-story tower’s second go-round as a Holiday Inn franchise after two stints as Embassy on the Park, a stretch under the Days Inn flag and most recently as the independent Citi [...]
Stolichnaya(R) vodka, the best- selling Russian vodka in the United States, today announced the May 2, 2007 grand opening of the inaugural Stoli(R) Hotel, Los Angeles. Adding yet another milestone to Stoli(R)’s unique history of innovation, the Stoli(R) Hotel will provide L.A. with a month-long entertainment space, boasting a cutting-edge design that rivals the world’s [...]
Call it the Metro Atlanta commuter backlash.
Fed-up commuters — conquering traffic congestion by simply moving closer to work.
And one of the most popular “live-work-play†communities is right in the urban heart of Metro-Atlanta’s vast, 28-county sprawl, a region that is now the fastest-growing in the nation, with 5.1 million people and counting.
The community is Midtown [...]
New York City-based developer Related has razed the St. Regis Hotel and has started construction on its 42-story condominium project, called the Century. The 140-unit development, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, will feature condos from 2,400 sf to 10,000 sf on a four-acre site on the Avenue of the Stars adjacent to the Hyatt Regency [...]
The arrival of a Korean developer and the promotion of rotating towers are surely separate symptoms of a bubble in Dubai real estate. Foreign firms are usually the last to arrive, and outlandish proposals are only taken seriously during the most bullish of times. But supply and demand is the issue of greater concern.
Expert opinion [...]
