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...The riverside now opens onto a broad esplanade, turning what was once known as La Belle Endormie into a dynamic destination, with small chic hotels, vibrant new restaurants and a high-speed rail link putting...
...“The Pacific islands have always been important, most obviously in the second world war, as strategic stepping stones,” said Euan Graham, a defence expert at La Trobe University in Melbourne....
...You go from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco is under 30 minutes....
...Central LA is beyond her price range, but further-out areas such as North Inglewood appear to have some suitable town homes, she says....
...He “had to let the public know the [dire] state of affairs he inherited,” Joaquín Morales Solá, a leading columnist, wrote in La Nación newspaper....
...Shares of US homebuilders rose after a report from the National Association of Home Builders showed confidence of builders touching a six-month high in July....
...That same month, Melco Crown Entertainment, a Macau gaming company, signed an agreement with Philippine property developer Belle Corp to invest $600m in a casino resort scheduled to open in March next year...
...Some free market proponents are on the same side as civil rights groups, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Council of La Raza, in opposing the bill....
...Melco Crown Entertainment, the Macau gaming firm, on Friday signed an agreement with Philippine property developer Belle Corp to invest $600m in a casino resort scheduled to open in March next year....
...He then acquired Montreal newspaper La Presse, and by 1968, had gained control of Power Corp, at one time an electric utility, according to “Billionaires of Canada,” by Timothy Le Riche....
...It is being built by Belle Corp, a luxury property developer owned by the family of Henry Sy, the richest man in the Philippines....
...As London marked the 150th anniversary of the world’s first underground railway, the builders of 21st century infrastructure had problems on their hands in China....
...In 2010, Belle Corp, the company that owns Belle Grande, tried to strike a deal with Harrah’s Entertainment, but the Las Vegas casino operator declined, worried the market was not big enough for four new...
...Residents of San Sebastián were alarmed when, on October 9 2011, builders began moving furniture out of their city’s most venerable and glamorous hotel. They needn’t have worried....
...SM aims to open the “Belle Grande” casino by the second quarter of 2013 in line with the government’s ambitious plans to establish a Las Vegas-style casino strip in Manila, which it hopes will turn the Philippines...
...Economic data released on Monday showed that US housing market sentiment remained flat in March, with home builder confidence holding steady from last month....
...The train is one of the handful of the 30-year-old first wave of French high-speed trains that has been converted to carry mail for La Poste, France’s post office....
...Homebuilder stocks were barely given a boost by a rise in the National Association of Home Builders confidence index to 21, its highest level since May 2010, from a revised 19 in November....
...Like the Irish banks, many cajas lent heavily to property developers, builders and homebuyers in the pre-crash years....
...Some 55,000 US home builders journeyed to Las Vegas last week for their industry’s annual trade show in a defiant mood....
...One of La Vardera’s customers is Colin Smith, a building contractor in south-central Texas who specialises in interior remodels....
...Good environmentalism requires a worldwide perspective and global action, not the narrow outlook of a single neighborhood trying to keep out builders....
...The Charlotte- based bank paid $3bn for a 9 per cent stake in China Construction Bank three years ago, when subprime was barely in the lexicon and China was Shangri-La....
...The resort’s beautiful belle époque buildings began to crumble....
...Nevada, which has seen explosive housing growth around Las Vegas, had the highest rate of foreclosures, with one for every 185 households....
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