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...nation that's going to be teeming with them. Schrager, who revolutionized the hotel industry in the 1990s with his highly designed boutique properties like the Delano in Miami, is back in business and looking to launch yet another lifestyle revolution with his idiosyncratic Gramercy Park Hotel, opening this week at that fabled Manhattan location. Schrager wants to restore the celebrity of that address with a $200 million, 185-room hotel and adjacent condominium property...
...unit John Pawson--designed condominium, evidence of Schrager's master plan to combine hotels with full-time residential properties--at $5 million to $10 million apiece. He is about to announce a 10,000-unit residential, retail and hotel complex in Las Vegas, inspired by the Tivoli Gardens, Central Park and a Tuscan town square. In a softening housing market, the Las Vegas project will be a stern test of Schrager's vision. "Everything Ian does has levels of influence," says Ross Klein, president of W Hotels Worldwide. "He's an innovator, and this balancing of full-time and overnight...
...gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part of the SKI club: Spending the Kids' Inheritance...
There's about a dozen motorcycles parked by the side of the road, but it's not menace that has ridden into Bulahdelah, 100 km north of Newcastle. These bikers have no interest in the liquids on offer in the bright-yellow Plough Inn. Rather, they sip tea and coffee in a sun-drenched park behind the library. And the color of some of the men's hair: that isn't blond or platinum, it's gray. None of these blokes is younger than 45; a couple are over...
...Fine for indecent exposure at a man-made beach in Paris, where police this summer began enforcing the park's four-year-old ban on thongs and topless sunbathing...