As well as the hotel, the surrounding streets have been turned into a classy shopping enclave that has already attracted Jimmy Choo and Marc Jacobs.
I recently moved to Asbury Park, N.J., a community that is going through an economic and cultural renaissance, with new upscale condos, classy shops, restaurants and art galleries.
But in the last five years that has begun to change: well-heeled Germans, British and Italians are snapping up land on sheer promontories and pristine beachfronts along the 30-mile finger of Cape territory, and its hub, Cape Town, has sprouted luxury hotels and classy shops like Whack-a-Mole games sprout moles.
Once you have an understanding of classy dressing, shopping in cheaper shops will be very simple.Get simple clothing and timeless pieces that can be worn throughout and past your economic slump.
It has been astonishing to watch, in the slowing of the economy, how the classy sex-shop business model has thrived.
Xander's, one of three dispensaries in the portfolio of weed umbrella company Cannar, has been touted as the poster-child template for the classy pot shops of tomorrow and was presenting franchising packages for entrepreneurs who wished to copy its successful business model.
It has great restaurants, endless shopping, classy colonial-era hotels and plenty of wildlife within the city limits.
Open daily 8am-6pm A classy cafe-cum-shop stocked with fashionable cycling accessories, Ronde is a place that will definitely appeal to the style-conscious road cyclist.
Hardscrabble frontier life seems not to have eroded a sense of whimsy; the sidewalks in Alturas, a town near the Oregon border, are lined with stores like the Belligerent Duck (an outdoor outfitter); Skirts N Spurs (a hair salon); and Classy Lassie (an apparel shop).
A huge effort has been made to make the concert hall a welcoming place - not just with its five levels of timber-clad lobbies, the classy cafe, bars and shop, the shady gardens with their outdoor amphitheatres, the Redcat performing arts venue incorporated into the main building, a basement art gallery and those 2,200 parking spaces, but in the design of the auditorium itself.
