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...“What makes American philanthropy different is the concept of doing more,” adds Sager. “[19th-century French thinker] Alexis de Tocqueville noted this exceptionalism and our ability to unite and form associations...
...New parks and plazas sprang up. There were iconic images of Olympic divers with the basilica of the Sagrada Família in the background....
...And flamenco is mainly this,” says Juan Manuel del Rey, owner of Corral de la Morería, one the city’s oldest tablaos, and president of their national association....
...Yet the concern is that they may also be motivated to sell because of a suddenly hostile climate and a fear of what Lenz called “guilt by association”....
...The vast central plaza, including the restaurant block, was levelled to clear the view and make way for sleek reflecting fountains and eight new swimming pools....
...It is a bet on the luxury market in a part of central Madrid more commonly thought of as a transit point between the Gran Via shopping and theatre district and the Puerta del Sol and Plaza Mayor tourist...
...Del Moral is a former entrepreneur turned full-time host....
...A famous song celebrates his 1974 presidential campaign: “From the Plaza they shout… Lopez is the rooster! The president that Colombia needs!” Sánchez and I carried on walking....
...The Chinese group, which unexpectedly pulled out of a heated battle to take over Starwood Hotels for $14bn last year, was blocked by US authorities from buying the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego due to...
...An upscale condominium is scheduled to go up by 2018. In all, $440m will be invested in the complex....
...Harvard Square, the triangular plaza near the centre of Cambridge, is generally seen as the city’s hub....
...The condominium market in Cambridge is attracting the most interest from investors, says Coldwell Banker’s Roberts....
...“Havana before 1959 was like Monaco today, on steroids,” a resident European and watch aficionado tells me....
...$1m A two-bedroom condominium in a new building downtown $3m A four-bedroom home in Del Mar $5m A five-bedroom home in La Jolla More listings at ftpropertylistings.com Photographs: Alamy; Richard Cummins...
...In the same vein, World Padel Club in Sydney is hopeful that padel will eventually fall under the auspices of the country’s local tennis association, Tennis Australia....
...Set for completion this month, the 3.5-acre Palazzo Del Sol includes 47 waterfront condominiums priced between $6.5m and $35m, with a butler service, a storage facility for furs and an on-site cinema....
...The only name that alludes directly to Franco is that of the Plaza del Caudillo, the informal title that Franco used for himself....
...Real estate broker Peggy Fucci has spent a lot of time in China trying to convince investors to buy condominiums in Miami Worldcenter, a new 27-acre development in the heart of the city....
...Monaco, for example, has a tennis centre based around the Monte-Carlo Country Club, dating from 1990 when the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) located its European headquarters there....
...Inspired by this, Caudalie now donates 1 per cent of its global turnover to associations for the protection of the environment....
...Now, as the last cranes and tarpaulins are being packed up, there is a clean plaza, with trees, seats and the foundations of a new art college....
...Candelaria is now at the centre of a surprising renaissance sweeping through much of this sprawling South American metropolis: churches, government buildings and museums have been renovated; parks and plazas...
...Morrill estimates there are some 30 condominium projects now under construction, most bought off-plan well before completion....
...I was staying in the Petit Palace Plaza, a grand residence just off the Plaza de la Constitución....
...to build luxury residential condominiums, shopping malls, and even hospitals....
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