What happens when developers conceive grand plans and run smack into the realities of the Great Recession? In the case of the 280-room Palmyra Resort, a luxury property in Montego Bay, Jamaica, once valued at $150 million, the property ends up on the auction block.
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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is in a mixing room in Lower Manhattan--but instead of hawking headphones like he's scheduled to do, the Jamaica, Queens-bred rapper is hinting about investing in Spotify and all sorts of other Silicon Valley startups. Looks like G-Unit's getting a VC division. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson should be hawking headphones.
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Photograph by Henry Leutwyler Architect, designer, and the advertising impresario behind Tronic, GoldRun. Altrendo Images/Getty Images (plane); Colin Hawkins/Getty Images (gold-panning); Seth Wenig/AP (museum patron, painting); Universal Pictures/Photofest (The Fast and the Furious); Dave M. Benett/Getty Images (Saatchi) , book (no credit) .red_highlight { color:red; font-family:Arial, Helvitica; font-weight:bold; font-size:13.5px !important; } .border-bottom { border-bottom:#000 dotted 2px; padding-bottom:10px; margin-bottom:10px; } .article p{ overflow:hidden; } Big idea: "I want to turn every aspect of our lives into a game," says the 35-year-old entrepreneur, "by marrying the digital and the physical." Using video, animation, mobile apps, and now augmented reality, Rosenthal creates interactive advertising campaigns for brands ranging from H&M and Yahoo to Esquire magazine and shoe company Airwalk
Read More »New Jamaica port welcomes huge cruise ship
A new cruise ship port in northern Jamaica celebrated its official launch Tuesday with the arrival of one of the world's largest recreational liners.
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