Hints and tips:
...PJT Partners has added Antonin Baladi, a former Bank of America dealmaker, to its European TMT investment banking group, Bloomberg reports....
...(FT) PE and trailer parks With roughly 1 in 15 Americans living in trailer parks, US private equity firms have come knocking....
...It has undergone seismic changes since the watershed Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, when a multi-story garment factory complex collapsed, killing more than 1,130 workers....
...The group, he said, planned to apply its “limited cash” to Wanda Plazas, the signature complex of movie theatres, shopping and residences that Wanda has rolled out in cities across provincial China....
...After starting in Dalian, he moved nationwide with a chain of Wanda Plaza shopping malls....
...Over the course of about 30 minutes last week, Brown told the audience at Westminster Park Plaza the secret to “constructing a billion-pound tech business”....
...Richard Solomons has chosen a table at the furthest corner of the club lounge on the top floor of the InterContinental London Park Lane hotel. The vantage point provides great views of the city....
...Ms Stribling should know: she sold the Plaza Hotel apartments in 2007, about half of which went to foreigners. “They see America as a safe haven,” she says....
...The Carlyle hotel was sold to Hong Kong billionaire Cheng Yu-tung in 2011, while the Plaza Hotel, at the corner of central park in Manhattan, is owned by jailed Indian tycoon Subrata Roy, who has been attempting...
...Can you have a five-star theme park? (Arguably, the Plaza is a five-star theme park.) So it will be interesting to see how this venture turns out....
...“Other buildings advertise their views of Central Park, but at Seagram you have a rather fabulous view of the city buildings because the plaza sets it back.”...
...Just across the bay, Facebook has commissioned Frank Gehry to design its vast Menlo Park campus....
...Comcast will get naming rights to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, said Michael Angelakis, its chief financial officer....
...Plaza Hotel in Westminster on Friday....
...London’s InterContinental Park Lane property was likely to be the next hotel for sale, the group said....
...Some industry watchers suggested that they wanted to put pressure on IHG’s board to sell them one of its landmark hotels – possibly the InterContinental on Park Lane....
...Behind the imposing red-brick, balconied Bourbon-era exterior of Hospes Madrid (www.hospes.com; from €187), on Plaza de la Independencia on the north-west corner of Retiro Park, are 41 mostly spacious rooms...
...The winners would get a weekend together at The Plaza Hotel, and the event lasted into the 1990s when sexual correctness finally took over....
...The Chiswick Park office complex in west London has an events plaza that offers a changing range of sports facilities....
...Another landmark, in the city centre business district, is Colmore Plaza, ranked as the UK’s largest speculatively built office block outside London when it was launched last March....
...Sundays are still quiet and in some places you feel that you are in a provincial plaza in a smaller town....
...A handful of visitors amble around the central plaza, or into the galleries and shops, or the hidden courtyards....
...Plaza, New York Classy, yes. Expensive, you bet. A glass of orange juice is $12. But you are served by white-gloved butlers in a building on Central Park South....
...He’s working on the Four Seasons and Ardmore Park residences in Singapore....
...The Grand Hotel Baglione and the Plaza & Lucchese are two other business and leisure favourites....
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