Union Square retail scene makes a comeback
Union Square enjoyed a banner year for new retail leases in 2010, following a period when San Francisco's chichi shopping district was pockmarked by numerous vacant storefronts amid trophy brands like Hermes, Gucci, Tiffany and Chanel.
About a dozen Retailers signed leases in 2010, including several in the final days of December, and about 10 stores opened their doors during the year. It's a far cry from 2009, when only a handful of new leases were signed in the area, brokers said. In 2010, U...
Union Square retail scene makes a comeback
Union Square enjoyed a banner year for new retail leases in 2010, following a period when San Francisco's chichi shopping district was pockmarked by numerous vacant storefronts amid trophy brands like Hermes, Gucci, Tiffany and Chanel.
About a dozen Retailers signed leases in 2010, including several in the final days of December, and about 10 stores opened their doors during the year. It's a far cry from 2009, when only a handful of new leases were signed in the area, brokers said. In 2010, U...
Pols seek to make parole votes public
Furious Beacon Hill lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a bill that would make Parole Board votes public and bar the release of inmates serving more than one life sentence, the Herald has learned.
“I have no idea why that wouldn’t be on the record,” said state Sen. James Timilty, co-chairman of the Legislature’s Public Safety Committee. “I can’t see the purpose behind the Parole Board not identifying how they vote. The roll call is the roll call. P...
Stockholm bomber was trained in Iraq, says official
Interesting article in that the Iraqi's claim there was a second Suicide bomber(an Egyptian national) who recieved similar training with Taymour Abdulwahab(the failed Swedish bomber).
Reuters(Reuters) - Iraq informed the United States about a plot to carry out bombings in Sweden two months before an attack in Stockholm by a man trained in Iraq, an Iraqi security official told al Arabiya television on Friday.
Major General Dhai Kanani, director of Iraq's anti-terrorism unit, said the man who bl...
Wal-Mart Opens Major Campaign to Take New York
Paul J. Richards/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Vision of the future? Wal-Mart shoppers in Fairfax, Va., in 2009. Wal-Mart is stepping up efforts again to open a store in New York City.
In its bid to open its first stores in New York City, Wal-Mart has begun a full-court-press publicity campaign, complete with advertisements, mailers and a New York-specific Web site that went live Monday. All this as the City Council gears up for a Wednesday hearing on Wal-Mart, which the company has dec...
Walmart New York City Has a Website
Have you seen this? Apparently Walmart, who is making a very public push win hearts and minds in New York City, launched a new website today at WalmartNYC.com. Splayed across the very top is the above graphic, right under the tagline "Helping NYC Save Money and Live Better." Oh, really?
Also included on the site are goops of selectively positive press, including video from when "New Yorkers gathered at City Hall in December to call for more jobs and choices for consumers in New York." P...
