The fight is playing out in Las Vegas, where Wynn Resorts is based, and here in Macao, the former Portuguese seaport colony now controlled by China, where annual gambling revenue is four times that of the Las Vegas Strip.
Belize City, Spanish Belice, chief town, seaport, and former capital of Belize (formerly British Honduras).
Justice Harkavy did allow a small part of the case to move forward, ruling that the attorney general could continue to seek payment of fines that had been assessed earlier against Seaport's former operators.
Jeffrey Sherrin, one of the lawyers for Seaport's former operators, praised the decision, adding that even if the case had not been dismissed on technical grounds, the attorney general's office would never have been able to prove the allegations against the home.
So the Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, which opens next summer in a former parking lot near South Street Seaport, is a logical next step.
The silt of the great rivers encroaches constantly on the sea, leaving seaports of former ages dry.
Last year, General Growth unveiled an ambitious plan to redevelop the seaport and its mix of former countinghouses and other 200-year-old commercial buildings that line cobblestone streets south of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Drawing Center, without a director for a year, is moving from its SoHo home to a former Fulton Fish Market site near the South Street Seaport.
The largest United Nations warehouse in the former Yugoslavia, at METKOVIC, near the Croatian seaport of PLOCE, was virtually empty, with only a few pallets of tinned beef left to be loaded aboard convoys bound inland to hungry survivors.
As a historian and a former staff member of the South Street Seaport Museum, I was greatly disappointed to read of General Growth Properties' plan to build a high-rise apartment and hotel tower on or near Pier 17.
