Ironically, Trump conceded in the interview that he buys lots of his hotel building materials from China.
Pop-hotelier Ian Schrager has taken his reputation for over-the-top luxury down a notch with PUBLIC Chicago, which opened in 2011 in the old Ambassador East Hotel building.
In January, after a 48-million-euro redo, the 63-room Hotel Sans Souci will open near the Museums Quartier in a hotel building dating back to 1873.
Picture the opening session of the summit held on an outdoor patio, set slightly below the main hotel building, with a pair of curved staircases flanking the stage.
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The appeal is the latest development in a long-running legal battle between the regulator and the diversified Sahara Group, which recently purchased the Plaza Hotel building in Manhattan.
The hotel building forms just part of part of the Abraj al-Bait complex, a Gotham City-like eruption of seven huge towers, conveniently sited a stone's throw from the Great Mosque.
From 2010 to 2011, there was a 17% increase in business travellers coming to the city, and a hotel building boom will add some 1, 400 new rooms over the next two to three years.
The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.
In 1996, Adelson demolished the old Sands hotel and began building the Venetian.
At the time of his move into the hotel business he was building homes for sale.
The hotel's main building boasts a 6, 500-square-foot white marble lobby, replete with burbling fountain and crystal chandeliers.
The 31-storey Gold Strike Casino Hotel is the tallest building in the state.
Chelsea's owner, Chelsea Village, is building a hotel, flats and offices on its stadium site in a prime area of west London.
The 22-story Park Hotel, the tallest building in China when it opened in 1934, looms over People's Square -- once the oval of the city's horse-racing track.
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The timing for building the hotel is very important.
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Building a hotel in the treetops is hardly a new idea: Brazil's Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel has been inviting guests to explore the jungle canopy from its rooms since the mid-1980s.
In the neighborhood of Nisantasi, Istanbul's answer to Beverly Hills (and where a 88-room hotel is scheduled to open in early 2008 in the Macka Palas building), the Sofa Hotel opened mid-2006 with minimalist-chic rooms and a small but serious spa.
The building collapsed Friday with a "huge whoosh and then thump, " said Ali Jawad Bhimani, a hotel owner who lives near the building in Dar es Salaam's normally bustling Kariakoo central business district.
The Grand Hotel Europa, a stunning Art Nouveau building on the north side of Wenceslas Square, was known to Kafka as the Hotel Erzherzog Stefan.
Built in 1883, the Atlantis Hotel is a solid wooden building facing out to sea.
In the commercial building sector, hotel and office occupancy ratios have peaked.
Among the approved proposals for the development is the conversion of the 130-year-old former brewery building into a hotel and spa, and homes.
There is also talk of adding a waterfall to a parklike area around the statue, and of building a new hotel for pilgrims.
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Among the other approved proposals for the site is the conversion of the 130-year-old former brewery building into a hotel and spa, and homes.
An heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune and a former Hyatt executive, Pritzker sold his Hyatt shares to his family in 2010 and has been busy building a boutique hotel business.
The other four values stretch back in time to the earliest days of the company, 30 years before we ever thought about building our first hotel, to our popular Hot Shoppes restaurants.
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They advocate the speedy designation of 20 to 30 more buildings as landmarks, among them the Graybar Building, Yale Club and Roosevelt Hotel, adding to the 23 already with such status, including the Chrysler Building, Seagram Building and Lever House.
Liverpool's Littlewoods building could become a hotel, if plans submitted to the council are approved.
He committed to waive taxes on imported furnishings and building materials for the hotel.
In Midtown, 444 Park Avenue South will be converted from a 14-story office building to a boutique hotel.
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