Starbucks will be spending heavily in coming quarters opening new stores and building out its international operations.
"We're building market share by opening in areas where we are growing the market, " says Troy Rice , Depot's senior vice president for store operations.
"We were in Istanbul for the opening night of a building we recently built and while we were speaking we've been astonished by a spiral stair hanging from a building in front of us, " said Ferlito.
The trendy Washington School House, a 12-room hotel in a 1880s-era school building in Park City, Utah, has had several buyouts since opening in December 2011.
Like the Empire State Building, its opening coincided with (in fact helped to create) a real estate crash in that small country.
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The State Ports Authority is planning a new cruise terminal in a renovated building on the waterfront, opening the site occupied by the current aging terminal and surrounding area to redevelopment.
It is hoped building work can begin in July with the opening scheduled for 2015.
The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, along with CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, provided the opening comments to the packed room at 30 Rock in the GE building.
He said the project would create a new opening in the Piece Hall wall and two water features in the building's courtyard, a new planned heritage centre would help people understand the history and economic impact of the building.
Then a couple of days later a flagship South Korean investment in an electronics factory in Scotland was put on hold: Hyundai's microchip building in Fife will be completed, but its opening will then be delayed for at least a year.
"I love the idea of an urban corporate campus with all the energy and variety that provides, " Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted last February, after opening his company's new headquarters in a formerly derelict Art Deco building in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood.
That allows Wamu to concentrate its efforts on building its consumer banking operations, including the opening of branches in new markets.
Never mind that some museums have faltered after opening a flashy new building, most notably the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
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Over 4000 men formed the original bridge building team for its formal 1890 opening. 57 of these were killed in the process.
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When Education Secretary Michael Gove announced in May last year that 261 schools would be rebuilt or refurbished through his new Priority School Building Programme, he said work would "begin immediately", with the first schools opening in 2014.
The university said the announcement of the professorship would probably be linked to the opening of a new building to house the International 5G Innovation Centre for broadband internet communication, which is scheduled in 2015.
We have ramped up our mission there considerably as a part of our opening to the country, so he will have an opportunity to thank them for the work they're doing in building out our relationship.
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