| MHI Hospitality Corporation Receives 2007 Renovation Award for Laurel ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MHI Hospitality Corporation (AMEX: MDH) announced today that the Holiday Inn Laurel West has received the 2007 Renovation Award from InterContinental Hotels Group [LON: IHG; NYSE: IHG (ADRs)]. The Company's Laurel, Maryland asset was awarded for having successfully completed major modernization and renovation programs during the past year in order to enhance guest experience. The Holiday Inn Laurel West is a full service hotel situated midpoint on the Baltimore-Washington, DC corridor catering to both business and leisure travelers. The hotel features 207 guest rooms, business center, fitness facility and indoor pool. MHI Hospitality Corporation implemented an extensive renovation of the asset in September 2005, which included complete guest room package replacement, dramatic redesign of the public space, meeting rooms and exterior, as well as the addition of a new hotel Café and Outback Steakhouse.
A nation turning into a wasteland
But at his home in Lower Largo, Fife, which he shares with wife Jean and daughters Grace and Catherine, he feels like King Canute trying to halt a never-ending tide, especially in the aftermath of Christmas. "I do what I can to prevent it building up but the amount of waste we still have to deal with is just immense," he says. "The paper bin out the front just now is choc-a-bloc with wrapping paper and we'll be glad when that's taken off our hands." Booth, a 32-year-old photographer and heating engineer, accepts he plays a part in waste creation and has thought about how to reduce his impact. "If I go to the supermarket to buy a piece of meat, I'll try and go to the butcher's section so it doesn't come packaged up. I'd have no problem if food was presented with less packaging." Despite his good intentions he harbours pangs of guilt.
Virtual world is make-believe, but crooks are real
Stephanie Roberts knew Second Life was just a computer game, but she couldn't resist the virtual world's promise of a real-world interest rate of more than 40 percent. The 33-year-old from Chicago, who played the game as a raven-haired vixen called Zania Turner, deposited $140 in Ginko Financial and waited for the money to grow. Instead, it vanished five months ago when Ginko, perhaps the first Ponzi scheme perpetrated by three-dimensional online avatars, left Second Life. .
One dead, four hurt in Twinsburg crash ...
TWINSBURG: One person was killed Saturday afternoon and four others were injured in a four-vehicle crash on Darrow Road, police said. No names or crash details were available, a Twinsburg police dispatcher said. The crash was reported at 2:51 p.m. Fire departments from Twinsburg, Solon, Aurora and Reminderville were at the scene along with an investigative unit from the Summit Metro Crash Response Team, according to a police news release. Those injured, police said, were a 67-year-old woman flown to Akron City Hospital, a 64-year-old man flown to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, a 23-year-old man flown to MetroHealth; and a 69-year-old man taken to St. Luke Hospital in Solon. No additional details were available. Man dies, passenger is injured in crash MANTUA TWP.: A Mantua man was killed and his passenger was injured Friday night in a one-vehicle crash on Mennonite Road, authorities said.
Chesapeake's risk rises at Belharbour
Less than a year ago, Chesapeake City Council took a big gamble on South Norfolk with public money. It approved the building of $200 million worth of condos, shops, offices and a marina on a gritty industrial site along the Elizabeth River. The idea was to spark interest in South Norfolk, and for its part, Chesapeake pledged millions for the new streets and sidewalks to make Belharbour Station at SoNo livable. The economic and environmental risks were well known. Could the ground be purged of industrial contaminants? And could it withstand competition across the river with downtown Norfolk? Now, even before major construction has begun, a new risk threatens to undermine the project: the curdling of the real estate market. So the council Tuesday night approved a new deal to take the pressure off the developer, Paylor Spruill.
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