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Friday, March 20, 2009

Shanghai Bund on the hotel development rise

from Hotel News Now (3/21);

Bringing the Bund back to life
20 March 2009 7:52 AM
By Helena Iveson

"SHANGHAI—Recently, all the glamour in the Shanghai hotel scene has been on the futuristic Pudong side of the Huangpu, the river that divides the city in two. A rash of ultramodern luxury hotels like the Grand Hyatt and the Park Hyatt, both in two of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, alongside the Shangri-La and St. Regis, literally and metaphorically looked down on the stately but decaying procession of buildings along the Bund.

But now the tables are turning, and the Bund, with its mixture of East-meets-West architecture, soon will be the place to stay again." ...

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