Construction of the £20 million Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast got under way today.
The hotel is sited in Great Victoria Street, next door to the historic Grand Opera House, and is the latest in a string being built to meet demand from visitors to what the Lonely Planet guide calls “a must-see city”.
Planned as a five-star [...]

This city is proud of its history, so when the landmark 1880 George Perkins house burned down in 1995, the citizenry bemoaned the loss. To the rescue came a developer with a plan for a new three-unit condo building that would replicate the Victoria/French Academy-style mansion. Along the way, Geoffrey H. Richon Co. took over [...]

Telkonet, Inc. (AMEX:TKO), the leader in providing in-building broadband access over existing electrical wiring, today announced that its Telkonet iWire System™ has been installed at the Best Western Midland Hotel in Derby, UK, to provide every guest with the freedom to choose either hard-wired or wireless broadband Internet access throughout the venue. Telkonet’s solution was [...]

An Australian hotel catering for homosexuals has won the right to ban heterosexuals from its bars.
In what is believed to be a first for Australia, the Victoria state civil and administrative tribunal ruled last week that the Peel Hotel in Melbourne could exclude patrons based on their sexuality, despite the fact that Australia’s equal opportunities [...]

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has signed eleven new franchise agreements with ITC Limited. As a result, travelers in India will soon have access to 23 hotels in the country under the Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection and Le Méridien brand umbrellas.
As part of the agreement and following significant renovations in recent months, seven existing Sheraton [...]

A condo project called The Railway Lands is on track for downtown Lindsay.
The three buildings, called Durham Station, Victoria Station and Union Station are located on brownfield land, a former railway property in the area of Victoria Avenue south near Russell Street west.
The development and public works committee recommended Tuesday that city council approve the [...]

Casino Data Imaging (CDI), the leading provider of data visualization and report writing analysis tools to the Gaming Industry, announced Morongo Casino, Resort and Spa (website: www.morongocasinoresort.com) have licensed CDI’s CasinoCAD© v4 business intelligence program.
“After studying several analysis solutions for our casino, CasinoCAD© was the tool of choice for our needs,” said Joe Basara, Morongo [...]

The owner of a financially failing hotel has been told he cannot knock it down and turn it into flats - because it is one of Norwich’s hidden architectural gems.
The Cumberland Hotel in Thorpe Road is finding it so tough to compete with the sudden surge of hotels in the city that its owner has [...]

It has been nearly 30 years since Greater Victoria has seen so many apartment-style units under construction.
The difference is that three decades ago many would have been built for the rental market while today this construction is almost exclusively condominiums.
Greater Victoria is pushing the 2,000-unit mark of apartments under construction, with 152 units started in [...]

Forget politics! Tom Brady’s may have a post-pigskin career in real estate flipping!
The New England Patriots QB/QT has put his uberluxe condo in the Apple, which he bought in September for $14.5 million, on the block for $16.5 million, the New York Post reported yesterday.
But why, oh, [...]

For years, Bill Defibaugh has been squirreling away the best of Bedford Springs Resort.
At auctions and sales, he bought guest ledgers, photographs and corner cupboards. He gathered wooden chests, grandfather clocks, stoves and glass bottles until he filled his homes with treasures from Bedford County’s aging grande dame.
Some pieces were valuable 18th-century antiques; others were [...]

Taubman Centers Inc. announced 25 additional retailers signed to open at The Mall at Partridge Creek in Clinton Township, Michigan. Most of the just-named tenants will be new to Macomb County.
The open-air shopping center, scheduled to debut Oct. 18, 2007, on the south side of M-59 between Garfield and Romeo Plank, will feature approximately 90 [...]