US Airways customers will have more travel options beginning Jan. 17, 2009, at all three Washington-area airports as record crowds are expected to attend the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama.
Customers will benefit from both more frequency and on some flights, larger aircraft, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, and Baltimore [...]

Cedar Fair Entertainment Company a publicly traded leader in regional amusement parks, water parks and vacation resorts, has announced plans for $62 million in new attractions, roller coasters and family rides in 2009.
The highlight of the 2009 capital program will be Diamondback, a $22 million roller coaster that will rise above the landscape at [...]

Abercrombie & Kent Residence Club, an equity destination club launched in September by the acclaimed travel services company, has achieved early success despite the current economy, crediting its debt-free equity model and the solid foundation provided by the parent company as key factors. It also announces a new transition offer to other destination club members.
A&K [...]

No matter who’s measuring, the results are the same: Housing prices are tumbling at the sharpest rates ever with a bottom still at least a year away, economists say.
Both the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price indices and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight index on Tuesday reported record year-over-year declines in April, a [...]

UNC Charlotte announced Friday that Steven Ott, director of UNC Charlotte’s Center for Real Estate, will be the interim dean of the Belk College of Business Administration.
Ott, who was named an Academic Fellow of the Urban Land Institute last month, will start July 1. Ott joined the UNCC faculty in 1999.
Ott temporarily replaces Claude Lilly, [...]

Are the Stranahan House and the land next door to it historic?
City commissioners will be asked to vote Tuesday night on that issue. It’s more complicated than it sounds, though.
The home of city pioneers Frank and Ivy Stranahan on the New River downtown is the oldest structure in Broward County, and few would disagree with [...]

E. Lee Wyatt Jr. bought a two-bedroom, two bath condo in the TRU Lofts building at 2525 N. Sheffield for $512,000 from LG Development Group on April 23.
Wyatt Jr. is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hanesbrands Inc., a position he’s held since 2005. Hanesbrands is a consumer goods company, specializing in [...]

IT will be the highest building in Southampton - rising 83m into the sky to the tip of its white spire.
The 21-storey shimmering hotel, dubbed a “gateway to the city”, is set to become its latest landmark.
It is the centrepiece of a prestigious £110m development that has been given the go ahead by the city [...]

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 Alexandria City Council approved construction of a luxury hotel on upper King Street near the Metro station yesterday, fresh evidence of Old Town Alexandria’s transformation into an upscale tourist mecca.
The new complex, which will include a top-drawer restaurant, coffee-wine bar and day spa, will be built on a site previously approved for a condominium [...]

Plagued by a chronic shortage of local workers, Wintergreen Resort has tried every tack but lassos to fill its staff: It has recruited 15-year-old high school kids. College kids. Seventy-five-year-old retirees. Foreign students in work exchange programs.
Still not enough.
This season’s idea: Jamaicans.
This Blue Ridge Mountains ski resort three hours southwest of Washington — playground for [...]

Simon Property Group Inc., owner of Charlotte’s SouthPark mall, and Farallon Capital Management will buy Concord Mills mall owner Mills Corp. for $1.64 billion.
The acquisition will be completed through a cash-tender offer of $25.25 per share for Mills’ outstanding common stock.
Including the assumption of debt and preferred stock, the deal is valued at $7.9 billion.
Farallon [...]