Tikatok.com, a leading online children’s book community, announced today that they have teamed up with Build-A-Bear Workshop® to help children create their own Build-A-Story(TM) allowing children to become published authors of stories about their favorite furry stuffed animals.
Children and parents simply visit www.tikatok.com/build-a-bear, register for free on the site and choose from special Tikatok StorySparks(TM), [...]

Condominiums and apartments saw the largest single year of growth in more than a decade in 2006.
The number of apartments and condos in Richland and Lexington counties exploded, with 2,799 new units compared with 781 the previous year — the greatest amount of activity since 1984, according to the Central Midlands Council of Governments.
And this [...]

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 [...]

The Fairbury City Council will move forward with a federal grant application that ultimately could lead to a hotel or motel.
“The city conducted an economic study about 10 years ago and it indicated a motel or hotel was a high priority, said city superintendent Leroy McPherson. “It was on a list of projects the city [...]

Dubai’s government bolstered its holdings of New York City real estate, announcing Sunday that its Istithmar PJSC holding company had purchased a majority stake in Manhattan’s five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel.
The US$340 million (euro260 million) purchase of the Mandarin Oriental, part of the Time Warner Center on Manhattan’s Columbus Circle, adds to the growing U.S. [...]

Equity Inns Inc. has completed the acquisition of four hotels for a total of $53.7 million, including the 129-room Hilton Garden Inn in Rio Rancho.
Equity purchased that property from LinGate Hospitality. The three others were sold by Musselman Hotels LLC and are located in the Lexington and Louisville metropolitan areas of Kentucky. The average purchase [...]

Equity Inns, Inc., the third largest hotel real estate investment trust (REIT), today announced that the Company has completed the purchase of four upscale hotels for a total of $53.7 million. Three of the hotels, which were purchased from Musselman Hotels, LLC, are located in the Lexington and Louisville metropolitan areas of Kentucky and have [...]

Lexington Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on single-tenant real estate investments, announced it has priced its public offering of 6.0 million shares of 7.55% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock at a price of $25.00 per share. Net proceeds from the offering are expected to be $145.0 million, after underwriters’ discounts [...]

A 200-room high-end hotel is set to top off the $70 million development planned for the former Federal Reserve site in downtown Birmingham.
Coral Springs, Fla.-based Vantage Hospitality Group’s Lexington Collection intends to put a four-star hotel in the top eight floors of the 18-story office and hotel tower slated for the corner of Fourth Avenue [...]

A 200-room high-end hotel is set to top off the $70 million development planned for the former Federal Reserve site in downtown Birmingham.
Coral Springs, Fla.-based Vantage Hospitality Group’s Lexington Collection intends to put a four-star hotel in the top eight floors of the 18-story office and hotel tower slated for the corner of Fourth Avenue [...]

Asluggish residential real estate market is prompting more homeowners to use creative marketing tactics, offering incentives such as gift cards and sports tickets to attract potential buyers.
Sales of existing homes are down 10 percent to date compared to this time last year, according to Tom Campensa, president of the Akron Area Board of Realtors.
“When buyers [...]