Land Use & Entitlements

Posted On: January 3, 2007 by Jim Butler

Hotel Lawyer -- Top Picks for 2006

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
3 January 2007

Hotel Lawyer -- Top Picks of 2006. Yes, 2006 has been a record year for many in the hospitality industry, and for the hotel lawyers at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP. As we have already given our Outlook for 2007, we thought it might be interesting to look back on our Top Pick articles from 2006 from www.HotelLawBlog.com.

The Top Picks articles are organized by the major TOPICS on the Blog. We generally tried to select just the top two or three articles for each TOPIC. It was a major struggle to decide where to make the cutoff. If you want more information on a particular TOPIC, you can go to www.HotelLawBlog.com, and search for all articles on that TOPIC. To do that, just scroll down the right hand side, and below the (free) subscription and RSS Feed buttons is the Browse search engine that enables you to sort by TOPIC (or date, or key words, etc.).

Here they are . . .

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Posted On: November 28, 2006 by Jim Butler

Hospitality Lawyer -- Coachella Valley Development in focus. Fastest growing area in Southern California

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
28 November 2006

Hotel Lawyer on the development explosion in Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley. Just before Thanksgiving, more than 250 people listened to the experts at the ULI-JMBM Conference on development issues and trends affecting the fastest growing area in Southern California -- the Coachella Valley. According to David Waite, a land use and entitlements partner in JMBM's Global Hospitality Group and the moderator for the program, "The Coachella Valley extends approximately 45 miles from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea. It includes nine cites: Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage."

Here is why you might want to know what is going on in this development center!

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