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The Grand Pacific Hotel (first known as the Starr Building and sometimes the California Block [2] [i]) is a historic building in Seattle, Washington, United States.It located at 1115-1117 1st Avenue between Spring and Seneca Streets in the city's central business district.
Charles Edwin Hurwitz was born in 1940, and raised in Kilgore, Texas. [2] His parents were Eva (née Engler) and Hyman Hurwitz, and his father was Jewish and owned a local clothing store, "Hurwitz Man’s Shop" and he built the town's first shopping center.
Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson (born 1929) is the founder of Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber products company that operates in California, Oregon and Washington.With 2.33 million acres, Emmerson and his family rank as America's largest private landowners, according to a profile [1] by Eric O’Keefe in the 2021 Land Report 100.
She was renamed Costa neoClassica in 2014, then left Costa fleet in 2018 when sold to Bahamas Paradise as Grand Classica. Since May 2022, the ship has been sailing as Margaritaville at Sea Paradise , after the cruise line announced a partnership with Margaritaville Resorts & Hotels .
Hotel Grand Pacific is a 4.5-star hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] It was built by Murray Gammon, acquired by Standard Life in the mid 1990s, and sold to Pacific Sun in 1996. [3] It underwent a $5 million renovation in the mid 2010s. [4] The hotel hosts tea, [5] and has hosted the Victoria Whisky Festival. [6]
David Bonderman (November 27, 1942 – December 11, 2024) was an American billionaire businessman. He was the founding partner of TPG Inc. (formerly Texas Pacific Group), and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital.
In 1988, CPR purchased the Canadian National Hotels chain, making Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts the nation's largest hotel owner. [26] In 1998, CPR purchased the Canadian Delta Hotels chain [27] and the international Princess Hotels chain. [28] The following year, San Francisco-based Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain was acquired.
Reading Blue Mountain and Northern 425 is a G-1 class 4-6-2 light "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad. After the GM&N was consolidated into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio in 1940, the locomotive was renumbered No. 580 and served in passenger service before being retired in 1950.