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...that first question--will Feels like Home soon be welcoming you into every restaurant and retail outlet in America?--well, there's really no qualitative reason it shouldn't. And yet it's almost impossible to imagine a scenario in which Jones can repeat the cultural dominance her first album achieved. For one thing, she won't be filling her days with phone interviews and photo shoots. For another, multiplatinum-sales phenomena like Come Away with Me have a logic all their own. Buying the first album by a beautiful, jazz-inflected underdog was an act of self-definition. Buying...
...another cookbook due out in the fall, based on dishes served at the original Bouchon. He is also marketing a line of Limoges porcelain by Raynaud that he helped design and a collection of silver hollow ware--egg cups, wine buckets--by Christofle, both destined for high-end retail stores. For dessert, he is simultaneously starting a $1.8 million renovation of the French Laundry and planning an inn on land opposite the restaurant. "This is quite a year for me," says Keller, shaking his head wistfully. "Everything has just telescoped together...
...Kenneth Himmel, head of Related Urban Development, a New York City--based real estate development firm, flew out to talk to him. Himmel's company had been given the job of attracting retail outlets and restaurants to the new corporate headquarters of Time Warner, the company that publishes this magazine, going up on Columbus Circle at a corner of Central Park in Manhattan. Himmel had five restaurant spaces to fill and needed a megastar to anchor the project. Even though Keller had left New York under a cloud, Himmel was betting he could lure him back. The enticement was prime...
...There was considerable discussion of various alternatives,” said Jinny Nathans, president of the HSDF. “And the [HSDF] has a policy to always hold out for street level retail...
According to Nathans’ article for the February 2003 Association of Cambridge Neighborhoods newsletter, Harvard would be violating a “long-standing agreement with the HSDF that whenever it converts or tears down a building in Harvard Square that has retail on the ground floor, it will continue with retail use on the ground floor...