Word: condo
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...strewn streets. Blue's shop was looking shabby too, its window displays outmoded, its linoleum worn. But when the City of Los Angeles moved to condemn his building--not to build a school or a fire station but to make way for a glitzy $500 million private hotel and condo complex--Blue dug in for what would become a three-year legal fight to save his store. "Big developers come along and say, 'Hey, that's a nice corner,'" he fumes. "Where will it stop...
...they could blow up my house. I thought of telling the sergeant that the address on the license was for an old apartment, which, last I heard, was being turned into luxury condominiums I couldn't afford. What did I care if some rich Washington developer lost a condo unit under construction? But it was the wrong time for jokes. The day before, as we had goofed around in the Green Zone, 11 service members died violent deaths in Iraq. Six of the lost soldiers were killed in the Baghdad area. It was one of the highest daily body counts...
...Laying off Lay, however, is clearly not on their minds right now. On Monday, the same day that Skilling was sentenced to prison, the government announced that it had filed a civil forfeiture action against the Lay estate. The government is seeking the $2.5 million condo Linda Lay lives in, more than $10 million in the Lay family investment partnership, and $22,680.14 remaining in Lay's bank account. "All proceeds were obtained directly, or indirectly as the result of various federal crimes, including securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud," the Department of Justice press release...
Cohousing, which debuted in Denmark in the 1970s, is a semi-communal concept in which separate living units--usually attached condo-style--are clustered around a "common house," which, at the very least, has a kitchen, a dining room and a third area for gatherings and activities. The idea is to bring back a time when neighbors were an integral part of one another's lives, sharing meals and recreation--and providing companionship and a helping hand. That concept has been co-opted recently by older people looking for a way to combine their autonomy with access to a supportive...
...forced into bankruptcy protection for the Clift Hotel in San Francisco and had to refinance debt. Last year he left his company, Morgans Hotel Group. Since then, he and his partner, developer Aby Rosen, have been involved in several deals in New York City, including 40 Bond, a condo in NoHo being designed by white-hot architects Herzog & de Meuron, and the Metropolitan Life building...