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...Salesforce, the San Francisco-based tech company, plans to put its name on a new glass tower it will occupy along the Chicago River....
...The property is on a two-acre plot and has views of the surrounding greenery as well as the mouth of the river Lee....
...“Every owner will be able to see the Manhattan skyline, the East River and the Statue of Liberty.”...
...Green space rolls down to the river. No less an entity than the US government has moved its embassy nearby from grander Mayfair. So why is it so deathly? No through traffic. Few cars at all, in fact....
...From their apartment 53 storeys above the bustle of Columbus Circle, they could peek over neighbouring skyscrapers to the Hudson River. Their lifestyle depended on Ganieva’s silence....
...And it will be draped in acres of natural gardens, including a fourth-floor terrace that runs the length of several city blocks....
...Fears about the fire had already prompted a scramble to convey petrol to US east coast cities at the start of the summer holiday driving season....
...Among the New York properties that Fannie Mae has helped finance is 456 Washington Street, which overlooks the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan....
...Tucked inside the narrow Wood River Valley in Idaho, the remote resort city of Sun Valley is one of the most pristine spots in the US, and home to the largest area of protected wilderness area outside Alaska...
...In Lambeth, on the opposite side of the river Thames, the area of green space per head has been reduced by 20 per cent in a decade as a result of rampant development and population pressure....
...The same is true for buildings throughout the River North and West Loop neighbourhoods, once thought to be either too industrial or too seedy (River North was once the city’s red light district), which have...
...Most of the joggers and walkers greeted us with a friendly “good morning” or “ohayo gozaimasu”, and the Kamo river trail had become my official favourite city run by the time I got back to the lobby....
...Nowhere is the trend more visible than on the Upper East Side, an affluent sliver of the city long known for stately Park Avenue co-operatives and elegant townhouses....
...If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.”...
...Why A landscaped “wrap” terrace on the upper level offers panoramic river-to-river views south and west of the New York skyline....
...On the west bankof the Mississippi river, St Louis is home to big US companies such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Ralston Purina and Anheuser-Busch....
...In spirit, New Holland feels a world away from the baroque splendour of the Hermitage, a 20-minute walk east along the river Neva, or the grandeur and formality of the city’s imposing squares and gardens...
...the fundamental value that subprime bonds now offer is likely to attract a torrent of new capital to the space to take advantage of the opportunity,”said Colin Teichholtz, a portfolio manager for Pine River...
...Most hotels in the city are fully booked despite average room rates among the highest in the world....
...The biggest firms include Getco, Citadel, Infinium, Hudson River, based in the US, and Optiver and IMC, based in Europe....
...Banks’ unlikely ally Vince Cable still bangs on about bonuses and bank lending, but the City should take what it can from his FT interview....
...As a child she experienced US bombing of Chongjin, the northern city where most of the book’s narrative unfolds....
...But the smoky furnaces that polluted the rivers and clouded the sky have gone, replaced by sleeker, modern-looking plants....
...PR is everything and that night Wintour made Manhattan the alternative City of Lights. The train to Philly is easy....
...“You’re starting to see the first signs of a turning-around,” said Ken Kinsey-Quick, who runs funds of hedge funds for London’s Thames River Capital....
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