With the announcement today of the 55th-annual Forbes Travel Guide Star Award winners, an elite group of properties have earned the highest distinction.
So Blackstone of the US created Southern Cross in its current shape, having disposed of the care-home group's properties.
Among the office names popular with analysts are Boston Properties Group and Vornado Realty Trust.
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Just as once-spurned asset classes can suddenly enter the limelight in real life, so too can every group of Monopoly properties.
As Vice President of Branding for Highgate Hotels, Susan Jaques oversees brand strategy for a group of over 40 properties including the Paramount Hotel in New York City and the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco and takes on design projects in her role too everything from overhauling hotel lobbies to re-doing specialty suites.
This money was invested in joint ventures with the Orana property group - most of the properties in these ventures have been effectively repossessed by Ulster Bank.
From shopping mall operators to apartment REITs, gurus completely sold out of a handful of names in the group, including General Growth Properties, Duke Realty, Post Properties and Vornado Realty Trust.
Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the newly-minted Huffington Post Media Group and queen of all AOL properties.
In February the Sukosol Group announced a rebranding of the Pattaya properties, along with its five-star Siam City Hotel in Bangkok.
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Hugh Jenner-Clarke, an 83-year-old Englishman, recently found a major deposit of 950, 000 tons of rare earths, a group of 17 elements prized for distinct properties of conductivity, magnetism and flexibility.
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Dreaded by many neighbors because of its out-of-scale height (25 stories) but anxiously-awaited by insatiable luxury-hotel fans, the glimmering glass Mondrian Soho tower opened to the public Tuesday, and I popped in yesterday to see how it measured up both to downtown fears and to other fanciful properties of the Morgans Hotel Group, otherwise known as the original chic-boutique hoteliers.
And Singapore's Raffles group has pushed ahead with refurbishment projects on major properties in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.
Blackstone Real Estate Group's LXR Luxury Resorts has amassed 33 properties, along with 681 hotels, under the Extended Stay banner.
Ramada opened its first hotel in Saudi Arabia last year, and SAS Group , owner of Radisson hotels, is developing properties in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Chair of Barthomley Action Group, Tom Wilde, said there were about 200 properties in the village at present.
His real estate holding company, Kirsh Holdings Group, owns extensive and extremely valuable residential and commercial properties in London, Australia and South Africa.
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By calculating the catalytic properties of materials on a computer, the group is learning what it is that makes other materials, such as copper zeolites, more effective under these conditions.
Even behemoth Thomson Corp. is said to have taken less than Journal Register offered, instead selling the Connecticut Post and other properties to William Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group, which is hardly shy about cost cuts ( FORBES, July 3, 2000).
"There are several pockets of blight around the city, and as a result, absentee property owners have responded by boarding up their properties, " said Mark Fogelman of Fogelman Management Group, a closely held property firm with 5, 000 units in Memphis.
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As the family company evolved, the owners decided to differentiate from the major mall developers like Simon Property Group ( SPG), Taubman ( TCO) and CBL Properties ( CBL), and instead focus on being the leader in the growing shopping center sub-sector.
In a statement posted on its website on Feb. 13, SEBI said it would seize all properties and freeze bank accounts held by two Sahara Group companies as well as its founder Subrata Roy for failing to repay the money by the court-set deadline.
This protein (a member of a group called the lectins, that is being tested for insecticidal properties) was already known to be bad for the immune system, so its effect on the rats would hardly have been a surprise to anyone with a knowledge of the field.
Since the electrical properties of solids depend on their crystal structures, his group is experimenting with new atomic lattices.
's shopper-rewards app in about half of its 338 properties, and is developing its own app to offer group discounts.
South Africa's Protea Hospitality Group plans to add nine hotels by 2014 to its 36 African properties outside its home market.
The group, which plans to bid for two of BAA's properties, now runs not only Britain's fourth-biggest airport but also three smaller regional ones.
Last month, SEBI said that Sahara had failed to deposit the money, so it passed orders to seize all properties and freeze bank accounts held by the two Sahara Group companies, Mr. Roy and two other founders.
Cablevision's local media properties include News 12 Networks, MSG Varsity and Newsday Media Group.
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Yet the group is estimated to retain control over an estimated 50-70 other properties, which it holds in other names.
One of his recommendations is Jonathan Miller, a former chief executive at AOL who is now a partner at Velocity Interactive Group, a Los Angeles-based firm that invests in digital media properties.
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