Martha, we learn, has fled without warning to a run-down apartment complex downtown named The Madrid and is living out a sort of post-mid-life-crisis fantasy.

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In Chevron's 50-story complex in downtown Houston, geophysicists are sniffing out the next generation of deepwater oil wells.

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One high-profile deal involves its purchase in late 2012 of a grade-A office and five-star hotel complex in downtown Shanghai from a distressed local developer.

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Federal Realty is developing a huge commercial complex with adjoining apartment buildings called Assembly Square near downtown Boston (3.5 miles from the city center).

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Schemes to gentrify the downtown and other areas, such as the construction of the Hollywood and Highland complex that includes the Kodak Theatre -- home to the Oscars since 2002 -- have gone some way to revitalizing the inner city.

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Earl Holding has been buying land in downtown Salt Lake for years, and the rumors are flying right now that he plans to build a hotel complex close to the Salt Palace convention center, being rebuilt and expanded.

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Today, it includes 23 hotels, four theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom), almost 100 restaurants, two water parks (Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach), a sports complex (Disney's Wide World of Sports), and two shopping and nightlife districts (Downtown Disney and Disney's Boardwalk), as well as six golf courses, three miniature golf courses and lagoons with water sports, all connected by a complicated system of free buses, boats and monorails.

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The ship will remain in the city state's downtown Port Rashid facility to serve as a tourist magnet alongside a proposed maritime museum and an expanding cruise ship terminal complex, officials said Monday.

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