Event Hotels in South Virginia|"Labor Day Boost"

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Plans to open the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as scheduled on Labor Day are getting a boost.Federal officials have signed off on a temporary fix for cracked seismic safety bolts on the span that could allow for the Labor Day opening. In an Aug. 9 letter, a Federal Highway Administration official says he sees no reason to delay opening the bridge to traffic while the permanent fix is completed. The letter was signed by Vincent Mammano, a division administrator with the FHA and sent to Steve Heminger, head of the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee. Heminger has said the temporary fix involves installing steel plates into the area of the broken bolts to help prevent movement during an earthquake.

A developer is taking legal action against the historic landmark designation for one acre at a former World War II-era internment camp in the San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles Times reported Snowball West Investments won't stop installation of some sort of commemoration at the site, but the company wants permission to tear down a golf course and build a 220-unit residential community. In June, the City Council voted unanimously to overturn a Cultural Heritage Commission decision and honor the former site of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station, which is now a one-acre oak grove. More than 2,500 Japanese, Japanese Americans, Germans, Italians and Japanese-Peruvians were detained there following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor.Blackstone Group LP, the largest manager of private equity real estate funds, agreed to sell its London West Hollywood hotel in California to Northwood Investors LLC for $195 million, said a person with knowledge of the deal.

Northwood is under contract to purchase the property, located near Sunset Boulevard and home to restaurants by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the agreement is private. New York-based Northwood was founded by President and Chief Executive Officer John Kukral, who led Blackstone's real estate business until he left the firm in 2005. Blackstone (NYSE: BX) acquired the London West Hollywood, on San Vicente Boulevard, in 2005 as part of its purchase of Wyndham International Inc., and spent $50 million to renovate it. The property became part of Blackstone's LXR Luxury Resorts & Hotels unit.Florida plans to file a U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit against Georgia, saying the state is consuming too much water that would otherwise flow to Florida. Florida Governor Scott, a Republican, said Tuesday that the lawsuit will be filed in September, after more than “20 years of failed negotiations” over water distribution between the states. Georgia's water use threatens fisheries in the Florida panhandle city of Apalachicola, along with economic development in the region, Scott said.

“That's our water,” Scott said. “They’ve impacted our families. They’ve impacted the livelihood of people down here.” At a hearing Tuesday in Apalachicola, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, and U.S Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, both blamed Georgia for taking more than its fair share of water.

Georgia's consumption, along with a drought last year, has devastated the oyster industry in Northwest Florida, the Senators said.

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