Word: plaza
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Reasons to Move There: Depot Plaza, where Amish shoppers park their horses and buggies, is a downtown meeting place and festival site. Nice mix of old and new: John's Butcher Shop uses 500 meat lockers to store food for the Amish, who shun electricity at home; sports agent Mark Simpson, who lives here, shows his clients the money via fax or modem...
...world. He currently owns 50% of the Fairmont group, 30% of Movenpick, a Swiss chain, and 25% of the upmarket Four Seasons chain. He is the sole owner of the deluxe George V in Paris and owns half of the Inn on the Park in London and the Plaza in New York, plus 17 other luxury hotels. His blueprint calls for 42 new hotels in 15 countries, in addition to plans to develop 40 new franchises for Planet Hollywood in the Middle East and Europe. Says Alwaleed: "Three years ago, I started to get into the hospitality industry...
BOSTON--In the midst of the vast, redbrick wasteland also known as City Hall Plaza sit 24 scrumptious varieties of apples, sold by the husband-and-wife team of Richard and Doris Nills...
Meier, 63, has come up with a superb piece of place making. When the Epcot-style tram delivers you from the parking garage at the bottom to the plaza at the top of the ridge, you step out into a space that seems both amiable and Utopian, dignified but, despite its acreage of travertine, not authoritarian: a respite from the visual chaos of Los Angeles, but offering the best views a public could have of the city spread below...
...move. MIX was hoping to hold the festival in the Common again, but the station bowed to pressure from Boston mayor Tom Menino. "It is an election year," said Engel, "and to better the downtown area's image and appeal, the Mayor asked that we try the plaza, although we really wanted to remain on the Common." Engel also added that "the people of Beacon Hill aren't crazy about music on the Common and they appealed to the Mayor." Engel said that next year's location is still...