On Black Friday 1983, hundreds of thousands of Americans stood in seemingly unending lines braving potential riots at retail stores to secure a Cabbage Patch Kid for the holiday season. stations around the world featured footage of the so-called “riots,” and newspapers splashed accounts of the Cabbage Patch Kids across their headlines. With Black [...]

Continental Airlines will be presenting at the Credit Suisse Global Airline Conference Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. (CT)/9:30 a.m. (ET).
A live webcast will be available at continental.com in the About Continental section under Investor Relations>Investor Updates & Presentations. The webcast and accompanying slide presentation will be [...]

Are Your Children Vision-Ready for Life and Learning?” is the question asked today by PediaVision, a company dedicated to solving the critical problem of undiagnosed vision problems affecting thousands of children and to helping Pediatricians provide thorough vision screening.
As children across the U.S. are screened for vision problems in schools, parents who learn of vision [...]

Keith Nowalk has had two houses on the market in Plum for a few years.
One house originally was listed at just under $500,000 and the other is listed close to $65,000. He can’t seem to sell either house. He’s cut the more expensive price by $150,000 over the last three years and moved a [...]

Would you like a shiatsu massage with your new condo? How about a bone-density test?
Arizona’s Canyon Ranch, regarded as the most glittering brand in the $10 billion spa industry, has branched into real estate, and on Wednesday will roll out a marketing campaign for the 67-story condo-hotel at Huron and Rush Streets that will bear [...]

Though a booming real estate market sparked the upgrade wave in the Keys, a cold housing market may help reverse the tide.
Developers planned to finance the majority of the new resorts with condominium sales, but demand for the pricey units has gone south.
The owners of Holiday Isle, the iconic bar and motel in Islamorada, decided [...]

More than 15,000 condo-hotel rooms could flood Central Florida during the next several years in one of the biggest, and possibly riskiest, building booms ever to sweep the region’s lodging industry.
Condo hotels are outwardly indistinguishable from their conventional counterparts. They have lobbies, room service and even affiliations with the world’s best-known hotel brands. It’s their [...]

Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa is pleased to announce the appointment of Jim Mauer as the resort’s new general manager. Mauer, a 22 year Marriott veteran, has returned home, so to speak, as he started his hospitality career at the premier Fort Lauderdale resort back in 1984. He brings over 20 years of hospitality [...]

Associated Estates Realty Corporation announced today that the Company’s fourth quarter 2006 earnings are scheduled for release on Thursday, February 8, 2007, before the market opens. Promptly following the news wire release, the earnings announcement and supplemental fact booklet will be posted on http://ir.aecrealty.com/results.cfm. Visit the Company’s Investor Relations page and select Quarterly Results [...]

National City Corp., the No. 8 U.S. bank, said on Tuesday that fourth-quarter profit rose, helped by a big gain from the sale of its subprime lending unit.
Net income for the Cleveland-based company rose to $842 million, or $1.36 per share, from $398 million, or 64 cents a share, a year earlier.

The chairman of Forest City Enterprises, which develops commercial and residential real estate, sold 11,000 shares of common stock, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings Friday.
In two Form 4s filed with the SEC, Samuel H. Miller reported he sold the shares Wednesday and Thursday for $57.32 to $58.24 apiece.

Home buyers have a new reason to be wary in this weakening housing market: Real-estate agents increasingly have lucrative incentives to push one home over another.
Slow sales have prompted builders and some individual sellers to offer unusually generous incentives to agents whose clients buy a home. Sellers normally pay the buyer’s agent 2 percent to [...]