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...Schrager is also expanding his portfolio into urban planning. Adjacent to the Gramercy is a 23-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...
None of that would be so remarkable were it not for the fact that this particular Senate candidate is a Democrat, an African American and someone whose last name is synonymous in Tennessee with urban-machine politics. But that's not the reason that both parties are suddenly paying a lot more attention to this state and to 36-year-old Harold Ford Jr. Although Tennessee has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since Al Gore won re-election in 1990, the race is starting to look far closer than just about anyone would have expected a few months...
...league. How would you characterize such a group? Battlers? Bludgers? Westies? Yes, but there's much more to each of them. Do has quietly captured the textures of being and belonging. Like the country itself, it's a picture of tolerance, hope and humanity against a thumping background of urban blight and biff...
...SHARING Zipcar Home of a well-conceived, well-executed service for urban dwellers who need a set of wheels every now and then but prefer not to own one. The website makes it very easy to reserve a car, look at recent charges to your account, learn what's covered under the usage fees, and learn all that is expected of you as a member of this rapidly-expanding club. Now serving eight cities including New York, San Francisco, Providence, RI, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Toronto. Ready to go on a road trip? Check gas prices by zip code...
...Furthermore, retailers like Target and Wal-Mart have to answer to their shareholders, who demand growth. ?The cities are really the last frontier for big-box retailers,? says Arindrajit Dube, a research economist at the University of California, Berkley. ?The only place they are growing is global, but the urban market is just too lucrative for them to ignore...