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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 ...

  • Ply Gem shares rise in NYSE debut

    PGEM.N ) rose as much as 14 percent in their market debut, valuing the company at about $1.55 billion, as investors tap into companies catering to the recovering U.S. housing ...

  • Federal agencies seek a leaner real estate footprint

    General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Commissioner Dorothy Robyn, Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Administration E.J. Holland Jr., Department of Homeland Security Chief Readiness Support Officer Jeffrey Orner, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Executive Director of Operations William Borchardt testified on their real estate plans during a Congressional ...

  • Football player battling paralysis months after collision

    he hit both his intended target and a teammate coming hard from the opposite direction . He fell and went still. "You're waiting for the hand to move, the foot to move," says Brenda Dickson, wife of Tulane athletic director Rick Dickson, who was there that day. "Come on, let me see something. Come on, move. He didn't move. That was just crushing. I think it destroyed ...

  • The Xbox One will change how you watch football

    The NFL and Microsoft, through its next generation Xbox device, are combining to upgrade interactive TV viewing of pro football games in a multiyear agreement announced Tuesday. The next step after that, perhaps as early as 2014, will be bringing technology to the sidelines on tablets. The deal is worth $400 million over five years for the NFL, according to a person familiar with the agreement. ...


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Cape Fear (1991) [DVD]

Cape Fear (1991) [DVD]

The character of Sam Bowden as played by Nick Nolte in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear is a far different man than the one played by Gregory Peck in J. Lee Thompson's 1962 original. As played by Peck, Sam Bowden was a pillar of dignity, honesty, and rationality, a good-hearted Southern attorney and family man forced to unleash his inner animal when his family is threatened by an unst ... ...

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  • A-Rod sells Miami Beach mansion at 21 discount

    Alex Rodriguez's home has sold for $30 million. New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez may have sold his South Florida home for $30 million, a 21 percent discount on the original price. According to TMZ, a Palm Beach celebrity signed on the dotted line for the sluggers spacious home in Miami Beach. The onetime home run king bought the property, at 4358 N. Bay Road, in 2010 for $7.4 million. He ...

  • Alexander Baldwin buys Napili Plaza retail center on Maui for $19M

    Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. said Thursday that its real estate subsidiary, A&B Properties Inc., has acquired the Napili Plaza retail center on Maui for $19 million. Honolulu-based Alexander & Baldwin (NYSE: ALEX) said it used $15 million from the proceeds of the January sale of the Northpoint Industrial facility in Fullerton, Calif., to purchase the 46,000 square foot retail center, with the ...

  • Cummiskey economic development incentives more art than science.

    When it comes to luring corporate relocations and expansions, economic incentives are more the icing than the cake. The Peach State, armed with a roughly $100 million "deal closing" fund, hands out discretionary incentives to just 7.25 percent of all prospects, Chris Cummiskey, Georgia's economic development commissioner said at a meeting Thursday. Which companies get the money, is ...

  • HKS will spend Memorial Day weekend moving

    HKS Inc. plans to move its headquarters into Patriot Tower this Memorial Day weekend. Dallas-based architecture and design firm HKS Inc. plans to make a big move over the Memorial Day weekend, relocating its headquarters to One Dallas Center, formerly known as Patriot Tower, in downtown Dallas. HKS plans to move into 142,000-square feet, or the first seven floors of the 30-story, ...

  • Zillow Far fewer Phoenix homeowners underwater on mortgage

    Phoenix is seeing far fewer underwater homeowners than a year ago. Phoenix-area home prices have been rising at an astonishing rate this past year, which also means fewer homeowners are underwater. In fact, the Valleywide underwater, or negative equity, rate has dropped to slightly more than one third, or around 36 percent, according to the first-quarter negative equity report released Thursday ...

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