| Rolling Acres hits rock bottom
For years, Midway Mall in Elyria was the dominant shopping locale in the area. It had it all: great highway access, four strong anchor stores and concourses filled with shoppers despite the slow creep into the area of competing retail complexes. But the announcement that Dillard's will close its Midway location has made it painfully clear that the mall, whose ownership has changed three times in recent years, is at a turning point. The new owners must find a way to reinvent the mall, which some experts say is not only possible but likely given the location, or it could face the slow and painful death that has taken out other area malls. The Chronicle is looking at three different malls in three very different circumstances — Westgate Mall, which was demolished and is being rebuilt; Great Northern Mall, which grew up as a cousin to Midway and is thriving; and Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, where there are more empty storefronts than occupied ones.
1111 Tower LLC Announces the Launch of Four Seasons Private ...
Denver, CO (PRWEB) April 24, 2007 -- Soaring 45 stories high, Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Denver will soon be a crowning jewel on the Denver skyline. 1111 Tower LLC today announced it will commence construction of the combination hotel and residences at the corner of 14th Street and Arapahoe Street in fall 2007, with an anticipated completion date in winter 2009. The Presentation Center for Four Seasons Private Residences Denver, located at 1080 14th Street in downtown Denver, is now open and available for viewing by appointment. Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Denver is destined to be a landmark, inspired by the classic and historic skyscrapers from some of America's great cities. Boasting 230 rooms of luxury hotel accommodations and 102 private residences ranging from 965 square feet to 6,100 square feet, residents of Four Seasons Private Residences Denver will enjoy the world-class service and amenities that characterize Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
IBM Teams With Simon Fraser University to Fight Crime
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - April 23, 2007) - Simon Fraser University has received a $5-million donation from IBM of new technology that will help law enforcement officials fight crime by understanding when, where, and why crimes are committed.
Under the agreement, IBM will work with SFU's Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies to create a crime prevention and analysis lab. Two RCMP research chairs, Drs. Patricia and Paul Brantingham, will lead research to examine how factors such as city design, the layout of road networks, and shopping mall hours affect the location, frequency and severity of urban crime.
The SFU lab will be equipped with IBM's threat and fraud intelligence and law enforcement technology. This includes IBM's Crime Information Warehouse, Entity Analytic Solutions, Global Name Recognition, Information Integration Suite, DB2 Data Warehouse Edition and OmniFind.
Grand Vision for National Harbor Takes Form
Milt Peterson looks upon the artist renderings of National Harbor with the critical eye of a general. It's like nothing Washington has ever seen. Sail-shaped banners line the Potomac waterfront, with moving images projected on the fabric. A retractable, 42-foot video screen stretches between two masts for outdoor movies. Stonehenge-like boulders alternate with larger-than-life bronze statues along the promenade leading to the water. In his mind's eye, Peterson sees concerts, sailboat races, sunset cruises, fireworks, maybe even water ballet. .
Competitors force Blue Ridge Outdoors to take hike
Campers buying tents in the 1970s likely had a different shopping experience than those looking for them today. Before the Internet and massive discount retailers, locally owned outdoors stores had the edge as prime places to buy hiking, camping and other outdoor supplies. Today, bargains on outdoor gear abound online, from Internet retailers' Web sites to online auction business eBay. And a local outdoors retailer says it has fallen under the pressure of competing with this low-price-hunting game. Blue Ridge Outdoors, founded in 1977, closed its Roanoke and Blacksburg stores this week. The stores at Valley View Mall in Roanoke and on North Main Street in downtown Blacksburg sold apparel, shoes and equipment for hikers, boaters and other outdoor enthusiasts.
Sharing the Forests
[Editor's Note: Two years ago, the government of British Columbia and First Nations leaders laid out a vision for a "New Relationship," spurring initiatives aimed at "closing the gap" between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal British Columbians. This is the third article in a four-part Tyee Solutions Reporting Fellowship series by Sandra Shields, who is looking at steps being taken in her home community of the Fraser Valley. To learn more about Shields, her series and Tyee fellowships, go here.] .
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