"The sale of W New Orleans-French Quarter helps advance Starwood's asset-light strategy, as we continue to pursue opportunities to sell owned real estate at the right time to the right owners, " said Simon Turner, Starwood's president of global development.
To those with the notion that scientists are not just like the rest of the population, know this: many from the capacity crowd at Prof Mitchell's talk put their new-found chemical perspectives to use in New Orleans' famed French Quarter on Tuesday night.
Speaking from the French Quarter of New Orleans, the president outlined a number of federal programs to rebuild the Gulf Coast.
This time last week, I was standing in the French Quarter of New Orleans watching the masses stumble by, clutching plastic hand grenades and oversize beer cups.
And fewer Buckeye fans traveling south to New Orleans would also mean fewer room nights and tourist spending on Bourbon Street and the French Quarter in the still-depressed New Orleans economy.
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In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina we spoke with Rachel Walton who, along with her husband, Eric, own the Bohemian Armadillo Guesthouse, a bed and breakfast two blocks from the French Quarter in New Orleans.
The hotel location near the French Quarter in New Orleans was good for our personal safety (we could operate out of the fourth floor in an interior hallway during the worst of it), but parking the satellite truck would be a problem.
One danger many foresee is that of a "Disneyfication" of New Orleans where the money gets spent on the tourist French Quarter - which wasn't damaged anyway - while the residential, poorer parts get ignored.
Compared to the residential areas of the lower 9th Ward and New Orleans East, there was little storm damage in much of the French Quarter, the Garden District, and parts of Uptown.
Starwood also has a W hotel near the French Quarter on Poydras Street, three other hotels in New Orleans and two in suburban Metairie.
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans built a free wireless Internet network for the central business district and the French Quarter.
The shots, fired from multiple guns, started just before 2 p.m. in the Seventh Ward, north of the French Quarter, said Garry Flot, a public-information officer with the New Orleans Police Department.
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