As the fall buying season builds in ski resort towns, potential buyers are likely to find a changed real estate market.
Dozens of security men with walkie-talkies and guns had secured the Pebble Beach resort against potential terrorists (and reporters from rival media organizations).
And a startling project to build a cable car running all the way up from the autoroute and railway line in the Vallée de l'Arve – a distance of about seven kilometres – gives the resort the potential to attract a new influx of skiers.
Exceedingly alarmed, the Secret Service went on full alert, combing the resort for potential poisons".
Second-home owners and resorts are potential customers, too.
Hampshire Hotels and Resorts sees potential in plans for a hotel rising from the site and is negotiating with the building's longtime owner, the Church of the Nazarene.
The position paper notes that $37bn in revenue was generated by gambling in the US last year, providing a potentially lucrative source of new corporate members – it lists giant casino operators such as Las Vegas Sands, MGM and Wynn Resorts as potential draws.
"But to propose it as a first resort, during a potential coming of a recession, I think is a bad policy fiscally, and unnecessary".
New York City officials argued that since the construction and operation of the resort posed a potential threat to its Ashokan and Pepacton Reservoirs near the development site, the city had an intense interest in overseeing the environmental review.
But Trump's Irish firm, TIGL Ireland Enterprises, is relodging an application with the local county council and warned that without the wall, the "viability of the entire resort and its potential closure" would be in question.
Dubai itself is also investing in other business in Djibouti, including construction of a five-star hotel and resort, recognizing its potential as a tourist destination".
