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...Marks said Oaktree had not yet sold the two sites — Project Castle in Hong Kong and Venice on the mainland — but that “the process is going as it should....
...The appeal of Atlantia’s assets, which include airports such as Rome and Venice, is clear. The index-linked revenues from infrastructure assets offer a hedge against spiralling inflation....
...It has restarted construction of the Venice site and has begun selling apartments....
...Under Carlyle’s ownership the company, founded in 2000 with headquarters in Venice, has opened 100 stores, including flagships in New York, Beijing and Tokyo....
...Yet as I ambled around the town on a sunny midsummer day, I found funky stores selling old LPs, an Indian lawyer who exulted in the “quality of life” in his adopted home, Chinese tourists by the busload...
...Or a few more canals over from St Mark’s Square, if you happen to be in Venice....
...Established in 2000 with headquarters in Venice, Golden Goose sells shoes that can cost up to €400 a pair, which have a well-known star design....
...In a 2008 interview, Desmarais told France’s Le Point magazine that his château was inspired by the Malcontenta de Palladio villa near Venice....
...Marisa Merz, now in her seventies and known for delicate yet deliberate explorations of fabric and metal, and Villar Rojas, a 32-year-old Argentine whose titanic clay monuments catapulted him to fame at the Venice...
...The Japanese management “is trying to make this into Japan versus the Merchant of Venice”, says one Japanese banker involved in the situation....
...Her parents had LPs of Montand and Piaf, and packed her off at 18 to the south of France to learn the language....
...(FT Alphaville)(Financial Times) “Lehman Brothers has agreed to sell Archstone, the apartment business it bought at the height of the US real estate bubble, to Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities...
...Equity Residential made a $1.3bn bid last week for Archstone stakes held by Barclays and Bank of America worth 26.5 per cent of the company....
...Lehman Brothers Holdings will buy the remaining 26.5% stake it does not own in apartment company Archstone for about $1.58bn, report NYT DealBook and the FT, both citing unnamed sources....
...“An Ear to the Sounds of Our History” (2011) is a reworking of a piece she showed at the Venice Biennale....
...The estate has repeatedly clashed with Bank of America and Barclays about how to unwind the group’s holding in Archstone....
...Archstone has sold assets since 2007, making it hard to put a value on its portfolio....
...We don’t need a nationwide replay of Death in Venice. We need Roma, città aperta, an open capital of a forward-looking country. The writer is a political commentator and author of Mamma mia!...
...Hines, a private company run by Gerald Hines, and Archstone have taken stakes in the scheme. TFI will co-invest in and manage the fund....
...Sokari Douglas-Camp, the award-winning sculptor whose £23,000 “School Run” is among the missing pieces, said it was equivalent to the contents of the Venice Biennale being hijacked....
...Lehman’s bankruptcy managers, the restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal, presented a plan earlier this year to pay out $60bn against roughly $320bn in claims after selling assets such as the Archstone property...
...After his last day at the CBI on Friday, Sir Richard is taking a three-month break, which he will spend in Venice with his wife Harriet, reading books and visiting churches....
...Archstone, according to some analysts, was a major contributor to Lehman’s demise....
...Money Supply blog: The ECB in Venice Two main news lines emerged from the ECB press conference in Venice, writes the FT’s Ralph Atkins....
...Multimedia: How Lehman collapsed – FT (video) The FT’s Francesco Guerrera provides the inside story on the fall of a Wall Street power house – and notes Archstone-Smith was the mill around Lehman’s neck...
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