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...Kona Village Resort, on Hawaii’s Big Island, which Rosewood re-flagged earlier this year, is now powered by 8,000 solar panels – the largest private micro-grid in the state, and the only one to run entirely...
...“We have to think there may be blowback from local businesses and mountain communities, where [Vail] arguably already has strained relationships.”...
...“This is what I think caused the snowball effect.”...
...Former insiders called the company a “Potemkin village”. Four days later Lasry resigned....
...Some of the biggest winners have been based, you guessed it, in the US (think Millennium, Citadel and Elliott)....
...“He never brought up the issue when he was in the company, and I don’t think it’s appropriate to him to mention that in court....
...I think they are sexy. Actually more than sexy; sensual – and very masculine. They remind me of the ancients, like Roman gladiators or Arcadian shepherds.”...
...“I can think of dozens of oil companies who wouldn’t put themselves through this in a million years and maybe they have it right.”...
...It has become the village commons of the planet. But in the village commons of old, neighbors who knew and recognized each other met and lived together....
...“This is not some forsaken village in the middle of nowhere, where there’s only one plant that operates. This is New York. There are a lot of opportunities....
...And he thinks the bargains achieved should attract more buyers....
...It is Zagat-think, simplicity for the simple-minded....
...“I couldn’t live there any more but I do think Romania is a property hotspot,” he says....
...Global private equity funds that up to now have largely shunned India are being forced into a serious re-think....
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