In 1999, Elvis Presley Enterprises purchased a Wilson World Hotel branch and after several renovations, opened it and named the hotel after the song, located across the street from Presley's home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Rehabilitated as part of the museum's ambitious new renovation and opened just Friday, the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Mustationation has become the city's most improbable new art gallery.
A gut renovation has opened up and transformed the interior into a series of open platforms floating in space, giving the house the look of an oversize Jenga game translated into domestic architecture.
Mokka Cafe and Restaurant (Sas Utca 4; mokkarestaurant.hu; entrees $15 to $36), the Buda kitchen that helped to kick off the culinary revolution several years ago, recently completed a renovation and opened a little sister next door, Dio (diorestaurant.com).
Located at the Mandarin Oriental, this restaurant (which does have a separate bar area) has been drawing a power business crowd long before its recent swanky renovation, which opened the dining room's sealed windows, flooding it with light.
The front porch, enclosed during a 1980s renovation, was opened up and restored.
On Thursday, after a lengthy search, contentious negotiations and expensive renovations, Roulette opened for business in Brooklyn, where it now occupies the historic Memorial Hall, a 14,000-square-foot space at Atlantic and Third Avenues, leased from the Y.W.C.A. of Brooklyn.
The baroque building of the contemporary art museum (known as MSUM), opposite the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, underwent an €8.5 million, or $11.4 million, renovation before opening last week.
Tully has now undergone a hundred-and-fifty-nine-million-dollar renovation — the opening move in a scheme to transform Lincoln Center's public image.
