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...back when everything was cheap. A three-bedroom apartment in The Summit?a stylish, but hardly palatial, development in the popular French Concession?is now on the market for $695,000, about twice what it would have cost two years ago. Another developer has raised its prices in the downtown area by more than 40% since November. Still, many investors feel compelled to buy. "They don't want to miss the boat," says Albert Lau, managing director of Savills Property Services in Shanghai, who describes the past two months as a time of "impulsive, panic buying...
ROBERT DE NIRO is backing a six-story luxury hotel due to open in 2006. It's his gift to post-9/11 downtown Manhattanand maybe a way to keep visiting L.A. actors off his sofa...
...Typical Saturday Night Now: Hasty Pudding Theatre [Lowe stars as “Pocahottness”]—going for a beer in downtown Boston with the cast after a show...
...through the maze of rubbish-strewn roofs and filthy alleys to carry water to the seafront Art Deco apartments of Colaba, the flashiest neighborhood in India's most swanky town. But here in Dharavi, a lost city under the overpasses linking the airport with the steel-and-glass blocks downtown, the only running water is what seeps out of cracks in the pipe. Which brings Kapur to other difficult digits. Like 150, the number of working toilets in Dharavi. Or 20, the number of years Kapur gives Bombay before it divides forever into rich and poor, high-rise city...
...last piece of the program, “Downtown Crossing,” was the world premier of Schwartz’s own composition. Paying homage to the title, Lowell Lecture Hall was decked out in balloon-lined music stands connected by colored tape covering the floor, representing the major stations and lines of the Boston T subway system...