"If you want to keep them, you must provide amenities".
In addition, bike advocates would like to see employers provide amenities like showers and secure bike parking, but the lack of them hasn't stopped two-wheeled commuters.
"Ranchers provide amenities to the public -- open space, wildlife, water -- for which they don't get compensated," said Bruce Runnels, vice president of the conservancy's Rocky Mountain division.
Hoping to attract luxury-seeking travelers flying to London, Virgin Atlantic Airways is overhauling its business class to provide amenities that make the typical coach-class seat seem like steerage.
Although it does not offer packages, W Hotels, www.whotels.com, provide amenities and a room-service menu for pets as part of a "Pets Are Welcome" (P.A.W).
To promote social resiliency, Water Hubs will offer space for people to gather, attend classes, dine and store equipment, and provide amenities like bathrooms and water fountains.
Airlines are only now discovering that successful carriers simply cannot fly everywhere, give passengers the fastest travel time possible and provide amenities that will satisfy everyone, from the Sultan of Brunei to the student on spring break.
Local authorities, once the key constraining force, are so cash-strapped that they need money from Section 106 agreements, the part of planning law that requires developers to provide amenities (and which developers resist, by the way).
Charging that they had concealed significant construction defects and failed to provide amenities described in their prospectus, the New York State attorney general's office filed an $8 million lawsuit Wednesday against the developers of a luxury condominium in TriBeCa.
