But this is judgment passed in haste. For the fact is that there is another, more conformist time, and that is the present.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Boutique Hotels: Vive la Différence
Friday, September 28, 2007
Dubai Government Firm Buys NYC Hotel
The $340 million purchase of the Mandarin Oriental, part of the Time Warner Center on Manhattan's Columbus Circle, adds to the growing U.S. real estate portfolio held by the Arab world's financial powerhouse.
The purchase by Istithmar PJSC, the Dubai government's holding company, was announced Sunday.
Istithmar's New York properties include the W Hotel on Union Square, the Knickerbocker Hotel on Times Square and commercial buildings at 280 Park Avenue, 230 Park Avenue and 450 Lexington Avenue. The firm also owns the Hotel Washington in Washington D.C.
"We're building a portfolio of both luxury and budget hotels in key target markets around the world," said Joe Sita, chief executive of Istithmar's hotels group.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Dominican Paradisus Palma Real Resort enters world luxury hotels list
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Disney to add resort
The Toronto-based luxury hotel chain is part of two expansion plans that will take eight to 10 years to fully develop and will include single- and multifamily vacation homes, fractional ownership homes and a 450-acre retail, dining and lodging district, said Meg Crofton, Disney World's president.
The number of jobs the two developments will bring to the area is unknown, Crofton said. Disney currently has 60,000 employees.
Four Seasons, with 74 hotels in 31 countries and two locations currently in Florida, will anchor a 900-acre development which already houses two golf courses.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Dominican Paradisus Palma Real Resort enters world luxury hotels list
Friday, July 27, 2007
Ground Broken On New Luxury Resort In South Bay
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Teenage Caribbean holiday heaven on Antigua
Monday, May 28, 2007
Top California golf resorts: Pebble Beach rocks, but La Quinta's no. 1
California knows resorts like Paris Hilton knows partying.
The Golden State practiced relaxation as a religion long before the rest of the country caught on. Plush accommodations, on-call masseuses, fine wines in the cellar and knockout golf courses outside your door became high-life staples here. That Michigan golf resort you loved? It probably picked up many of its tricks from California.
"Resorts just fit in with the California lifestyle," said Tim Hurja, a PGA Professional who worked at his share of resorts before starting Palm Springs Golf Central, a hotel and golf packaging company.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Upscale hotels turn to suppliers of luxury for that extra special ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Macau bets on new casino
Many of the punters who crowded into the Grand Lisboa - shaped like a huge lotus flower covered in blinking lights - were big-betting mainland Chinese who helped push Macau past the Las Vegas Strip last year as the world's gaming center.
The five-floor casino is owned by Hong Kong billionaire Stanley Ho, who held a monopoly on gaming in Macau for four decades until 2002. The former Portuguese enclave - two islands and a peninsula off China's southeastern coast - is the only place in China where casinos are legal.
In the past four years, some of the biggest names from Las Vegas - Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Sheldon Adelson, Wynn Resorts Ltd.'s Stephen Wynn and MGM Mirage Inc.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
CityCenter's Mandarin Oriental newly sold out
Still available is the Mandarin Penthouse collection, including luxurious two- and three- bedroom units ranging in size from 2,065 square feet to 4,259 square feet. These residences are priced from $3.7 million to $9.1 million and will be delivered as grey shells.
CityCenter, MGM MIRAGE's (NYSE: MGM) $7 billion dazzling vertical city, will open in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip between Bellagio and Monte Carlo resorts in late 2009.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Qatari Diar Real Estate and NorthCourse Leisure Real Estate ...
The company, which will market luxury real estate, will be headquartered in Doha, Qatar and expects to initially open Sothebys International Realty offices there and in Casablanca, Morocco. Offices in Cairo, Egypt and Muscat, Oman are planned to follow shortly.