He will hold out for a buyer willing to pay for his meticulous renovation featuring Miele fixtures and wood floors imported from Austria.
The first phase of the renovation, featuring the Carnegie's 90-foot-long Diplodocus carnegii holotype — named after the museum's benefactor and namesake, the steel baron Andrew Carnegie — opened in November, and attendance tripled in the first quarter of 2008 to 96,000, but officials said the real reason to renovate was scientific.
The renovation features accessibility, a warming kitchen, WiFi, a pool with beach entry, bubblers, current channel, vortex, fountains, separate splash pad, lap lanes, landscaped deck environment, and concessions.
The first major update since the popular family-friendly resort opened in 1959, the project includes guestroom renovations featuring new furniture, artwork and flat-screen TVs.
But, despite the home theater, gym, waterfall showers, Japanese paper walls, fireplace and renovations featuring the "finest materials and craftsmanship," Strauss-Kahn is a prisoner, his every movement monitored electronically, armed guards and cameras watching him around the clock.
The library renovations feature a 124-seat community room, expanded children's and young adult rooms, reading areas and an enlarged local history room that houses both the village and school archives.
Perhaps the most significant renovation feature was the structure's use of a chilled beam HVAC system, which uses chilled or heated water circulated in strategically placed columns in the interior space to cool and warm the building.
At 18 Gramercy Park, a beyond-high-end renovation project featuring 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot model apartments were staged by a company called Clos-ette.
The renovation was featured in Architectural Digest, but somehow something was missing: space.
But local reaction to the renovation, which features a new sign, a shinier chrome exterior, a flat-screen television and a full bar, contains an element of the unexpected.
Pre-renovation Nokomis featured a hanging sculpture called Wind and Water Chime which hung above a fountain.
