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...Bianca Resort is the best place to stay in Kolasin, with its wonderful spa, first-class gym, nightclub, fine restaurant and massive indoor pool. Rates start from about $190 for a standard double. While the nightlife does not rival Val D'Isère's, you can swap Budweiser and burgers (or red wine and raclette) for pear schnapps and kacamak, a delicious fondue-like dish made from boiled potatoes and melted cheese, eaten in traditional straw-roofed restaurants like Savardak...
...back without putting even more people out of work? Without bringing the economy to a grinding halt? That's the challenge. There's this idea that we'll revive the economy with green alternatives, but that's harder to pull off than we think. You can't just swap one form of consumption for another and expect to come out ahead...
...Charlesview and its contracted real estate developers, the Community Builders, first floated to Harvard the idea of a land swap and apartment relocation in 2003. Several years passed before the agreement was finalized, and the plan has since floundered in a City review process that includes extensive provisions for revision before ultimate approval. A new and improved draft, now undergoing a period of community input and review, is finally nearing a long-awaited green-light from City planners...
...unit subsidized housing complex, owned by Charlesview, Inc., an interdenominational faith-based, non-profit organization, was constructed in 1971 but has not been adequately maintained. Yet initial offers from the University for a land swap were rebuffed by the board and the residents. Even when the board voted in 2006 to accept an offer from Harvard for 6.25 acres of land where the Brighton Mills shopping center is currently located, residents remained dissatisfied, staging protests and charging that they were being excluded from the decision-making process...
...July 2009, the latest draft of the plan was submitted to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which oversees the city’s development projects. Over half a decade had passed since the land swap idea was first introduced...