High-end developers are moving in, meaning that Park City is likely to get more expensive.
High-end developers are betting that the current streak of job growth, record Wall Street bonuses and high hedge-fund performance will continue well into 2009.
About a half-dozen high-end developers have come to see the virtues of disposal units in the last few years, said Stewart O'Brien, executive director of the Plumbing Foundation, which represents 1,500 contractors who install them.
Whether or not regulations are tightened, mobile homes are thinning in Florida, partly because of changing environmental regulations and a voracious real estate market that is enticing owners of parks for mobile homes to sell to high-end developers.
And lo, Barbara Sallick — blessed be Her name among high-end developers, daughter of Samuel Grogins of the Nutmeg Plumbing Supply Company of Danbury, Conn., and wife of Robert Sallick, who worked for Her father — did look around and say, "Bathrooms don't really need to be blue, pink or maroon" and "In Europe, they are so much more advanced".
Before the credit chill descended on New York, high-end developers, hoteliers and home buyers were converging here, too, bumping up values along Fifth Avenue, rejuvenating historic residential towers on Herald Square, and helping to turn this pathway between the Empire State Building and Penn Station into a destination.
Welcoming its first guests last fall, Cap Maison is the latest in a set of new luxury hotels that are redefining the tourist market in St. Lucia, making it the Caribbean's new hot spot for high-end developers and well-to-do sun seekers.
The Labour MP for Tottenham and former mayoral candidate criticised authorities and bodies such as the Metropolitan police and health service for selling land – particularly along the Thames – to high-end developers on the promise that they will build some affordable housing further away.
"They were always very high-end developers and operators, but that's ancient history now," he says.
It's a fascinating concept that we think has only been tried in the past with vacation rentals by high-end developers, including Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton.
A deal with Donald Trump at the historical gem 40 Wall Street fell through, but by then Ms. Willis was already negotiating with the Battery Park City Authority and the Millennium Partners, a high-end developer with an interest in the project.
