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...News round-up Biden administration warns of lengthy disruption at Baltimore port (FT) Commuting is back — but not as we knew it (FT) Disney settles lawsuit in Florida theme-park dispute (FT) Amazon writes...
...The deal highlights private equity’s continuing interest in high-street food chains despite a mixed record in the space....
...Robert W Baird & Co agreed to pay $15mn, and William Blair & Company and an affiliate paid $10mn. The other businesses included Nuveen Securities and Fifth Third Securities....
...Last week, the company said it would double its spending on its theme parks to $60bn over the next decade....
...I entirely agree: if you want to feel at home in a new city, simply bring a book as you saunter the streets....
...What started with a few vehicles circling Golden Gate Park with safety drivers has expanded this year into hundreds of completely empty vehicles across multiple neighbourhoods....
...That’s undoubtedly part of the W appeal. The C$45 High Park arrives inside a glass terrarium with real plants....
...A kind of urban theme park for Manchester’s affluent singles — Simpson notes the average age of the people who live in his towers is 31....
...Others are propelled by their work, like Brent McIntosh, who visited 36 states while he was deputy staff secretary for George W Bush....
...Not Bangkok’s higgledy-piggledy street food jumble, apparently, which has been swept from pavements since a clean-up launched in 2014 saw beloved kerbside hubs such as Sukhumvit Soi 38 and the On Nut night...
...A wrought-iron door guards the address near Central Park where Guzel Ganieva lives on the upper floors of a townhouse dating from the Gilded Age....
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...The velvety Casa Cruz, a London expat that last year took up residence on 61st Street, begins at $250,000....
...Up the street is the French Renaissance-style Drechsler Palace, the former ballet institute that has been renovated by the W hotel group, a sensuous mix of 19th-century architecture and the jewel-toned hues...
...As a student, Park Chan-wook wandered the streets of Seoul with his photography club, his eye drawn to the city itself over its inhabitants....
...For vintage fashion, I love W Armstrong & Son, which has various sites across the city....
...Until recently, the assumption across Hollywood and Wall Street was that Disney would buy out Comcast’s Hulu stake next year....
...Despite that strategy not panning out so well, partner Chris Dixon isn’t giving up, the Wall Street Journal reports....
...By now I am hungry, so I usually stop in at Layla in the Kayak hotel, a hidden gem in the Collins Park neighbourhood right across the street....
...But picture, from Echo Park to Victoria Park, the truest urban villages. How many are car-less? We have, remember, lived through more than one kind of “energy crisis” in recent years....
...Double, from C$299 JO For the glitz: W Toronto 90 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON M4W 1A7 Rooms and suites: 254 Gym and spa: 3,300 sq ft gym with a boxing space, weekly yoga and HIIT classes Eat and...
...Disney’s theme park business is also recovering strongly despite the closure of parks in China, analysts said....
...Epstein then asked: “[W]hat character would you like next?” to which Staley replied “Beauty and the Beast”....
...More surprising, perhaps, was that an apartment at 70 Vestry Street, nowhere near Central Park but in post-industrial Tribeca, went for $56mn....
...Beaches, mountains, parks....
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