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  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Barbara Corcoran From waitress to real estate queen

    Barbara Corcoran's story would make perfect fodder for movies or TV: A diner waitress with moxie takes a $1,000 loan, uses it to build the first woman-owned real estate firm in New York City, and rises to the top of residential real estate in the city before selling her firm, the Corcoran Group, for $66 million in 2001. Sure enough, the woman who once owned 14 red suits -- her visual ...

  • NWI home sales continue winning streak

    Northwest Indiana single-family home sales increased 26 percent in April as compared to one year ago, marking the 22nd straight month home sales have increased in the region. A total of 766 single-family homes were sold in April in the region, as compared to 608 homes in April 2012, according to sales figures from the Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors. ';It is ...

  • Wells Fargo signs new 10-year lease at 7 St. Paul St.

    Wells Fargo & Co. has committed to spending another 10 years in the company's 95,000-square-foot office at 7 St. Paul St. downtown. Matthew L. Seward of Cassidy Turley represented the landlord, Harbor Group International LLC, on the deal. Seward said Wells Fargo previously had a 15-year lease on the building. The new lease begins in ...

  • Ahead of the Bell US New Home Sales

    Commerce Department is due at 10 a.m. Eastern. In March, sales increased to a rate of 417,000. That was close to January's pace of 445,000, the fastest since July 2008. New-home sales are still below the 700,000 level considered healthy by most economists. But the pace has increased 18.5 percent from a year ago. Steady job creation and near-record-low mortgage rates are spurring ...


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Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Before heading into Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment in the seemingly unstoppable video-game-based franchise, I had to remind myself that I had, in fact, seen two of the previous three installments, not just one. I had skipped out on 2007s ...

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  • Former chef and owner of Siros is opening new Saratoga restaurant

    Former Siro's, Saratoga Springs, owner Tom Dillon is leasing the former Big Apple Restaurant on Route 9. Tom Dillon, the former owner of Siro's trackside restaurant in Saratoga Springs, NY will open a new restaurant in the city. Dillon is leasing the former Big Apple Restaurant on Route 9, which has sat vacant since it was seized by the state for nonpayment of taxes in 2009. The ...

  • Olneys Shoppers store debunks rumors about closing

    Corporate officials from Shopper's Food Warehouse are denying rumors that its Olney Village Center store is closing, The Gazette reports. Rumors specifically mentioned that since the adjacent beer and wine store recently had closed, Shoppers and possibly the dry cleaners would close to make room for a Target. However, a Shopper's corporate communications manager says the store has no ...

  • Taubman plans high tech shopping at University Town Center

    Taubman Centers Inc., co-developer of the $315 million Mall at the University Town Center, plans to use the project as a showcase and a testing ground for digital interactive tools. The firm plans to combat showrooming where shoppers use brick-and-mortar stores for experimentation before purchasing items online, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune said. Mall tenants will likely offer discounts through ...

  • Some of SNC’s missing millions found in Montreal real estate RCMP alleges

    A court order obtained by the RCMP has frozen the sale of several properties, include a $915,000 home near the suburb of Saint-Lambert, Que. (CHRISTINNE MUSCHI FOR THE GLOBE AND ...

  • Fenway Center hits a surprise snag with transportation board

    The Fenway Center developer has signed a $226 million, 99 year air-rights lease with the state that would let it build over the Massachusetts Turnpike, but a state transportation board has delayed approval of the plan. A state Department of Transportation board approval, widely seen as a rubber stamp after the developer signed a $226 million air-rights lease, turned into a tie-up for the $500 ...

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