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...with no significant stomach problems. Peter Morton, 56, the first to see that youth was an untapped market, in 1995 built the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in the middle of the sagebrush off the Strip. "It was totally intuitive," he says. That demo is funding the Richard Meier--designed tower he's building later this year. "Our demographics studies have shown that young people who come to Vegas are better educated, have more disposable income and are less averse to travel than the typical Vegas customer. Our dealers earn more in tips than any other dealers in Vegas." The hotel...
...only party but meet, live and perhaps form the kind of community Vegas has never had--one in which people no longer change their cell-phone numbers every six months to escape from attachments, debts and exes. Real estate companies are racing to put up 20-story condo towers near the Strip. "People want to own a piece of Vegas," says Jeff Soffer, 36, principal owner of Miami-based Turnberry Associates, which is building condominium towers at the MGM Grand. The company had estimated it would take two years to sell the apartments in the first MGM tower. It took...
...anymore. At a time when U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was still being shuttled around to undisclosed locations, skyscrapers suddenly seemed like the most disclosed locations of all - bull's-eyes with nice lobbies attached. Within weeks of 9/11, Donald Trump canceled plans to make his new apartment-office tower in Chicago the tallest in the world. It didn't help that the U.S. economy was turning south at the same time, leaving empty space in office towers everywhere. For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U.S., might be one more casualty...
...least 7 a.m., apparently with no significant stomach problems. Peter Morton, 56, the first to see that youth was an untapped market, built the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in the middle of the sagebrush off the Strip in 1995, and that demo is funding the Richard Meier-designed tower he's building later this year. "Our demographics studies have shown that young people who come to Vegas are better educated, have more disposable income and are less averse to travel than the typical Vegas customer," he says. "Our dealers earn more in tips than any other dealers in Vegas...
...DEDICATED. The CORNERSTONE OF THE FREEDOM TOWER, which, at 540 m, will be the tallest building in the world when completed in 2008; at the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Nearly three years after a terror attack leveled the Twin Towers, New York officials gathered at a ceremony at ground zero as the 20-ton granite block was lowered into place. Its inscription reads: "To honor and remember those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 and as a tribute to the enduring spirit of freedom...