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GRAND RAPIDS After running into challenges with leasing retail space at a prominent downtown redevelopment, a DeVos-held entity got permission from the state to delay its incentive loan repayments.

The company behind The Morton, which was redeveloped and managed by Grand Rapids-based Rockford Construction Co. Inc. in 2015, has struggled to lease ground-floor and lower-level retail space in the facility, according to documents filed with the Michigan Strategic Fund.

While the developer has successfully rented commercial offices and market-rate apartments in The Morton, it has leased only 38 percent of the 38,000 square feet of retail space and has no negotiations underway currently with possible tenants, according to the MSF briefing documents.

That struggle to lease the retail space led DeVos family company RDV Corp., the investors in the project, to request an 18-month deferment on the loan repayment related to state incentives.

The MSF board approved the request in late June. The entity previously had awarded the $27 million project more than $4.3 million in incentives in February 2015.

For its part, Rockford executives attribute the challenges to the sites original design.

The Morton ground floor is a unique space and very well located along Monroe Center, Mike Mraz, managing partner of real estate development for Rockford Construction, said in an email to MiBiz. As a renovated former hotel, the available retail and restaurant opportunities are large spaces that are original to the building. We continue to receive interest, and it will take the right operator to utilize the location most effectively.

Lease rates for the available spaces are listed at between $12 and $20 per square foot and tenants are responsible for all utilities and upkeep of their spaces.

Additionally, the MSF documents note that 82 of the 99 residential units in the 13-story building have been leased.

According to commercial real estate sources, a combination of the low visibility related to the buildings original design as a hotel and the need for upfront investment from any new tenants serve as key challenges to getting the retail space leased up.

Its a unique space just waiting for the right user or concept, said Chris Prins, an associate at Grand Rapids commercial brokerage Colliers International Inc., who currently has the listing for The Morton retail space. But its going to take quite a bit for a build-out.

In late May, boutique retailer Apothecary Off Main moved into 779 square feet of space on the ground floor of The Morton building along Monroe Center. The company previously occupied space in the Rockford Construction-managed retail incubator known as MoDiv.

While retail as a whole has suffered in recent years as more consumers have turned to e-commerce for their shopping needs, many sources still say that small, specialty retail particularly in urban environments can have a bright future.

Mraz shares that sentiment with regard to space at The Morton.

We continue to be confident in downtown retail, he said.

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This quarter was packed full of groundbreakings! After over a decade of planning, construction has finally commenced on the new St. Pete pier. Construction crews have started driving piles into Tampa Bay to support the over-water portion of the pier. It will take 6 months to complete the pile driving process, however construction on the pier deck is scheduled to begin as early as October.

In other groundbreaking news, located on Fourth Avenue North between Third and Fourth streets, the site of the Museum of the American Arts of Crafts Movementwas fenced off this quarter for site preparation. The $70 million privately funded museum will occupy 137,000 square feet and stand 5 stories tall. The museum will include a 100-seat auditorium, a resource library, a children's education center, a 300-seat upscale restaurant, a cafe, retail store and event space. The expected opening date is May 2019.

Two more city-funded projects broke ground this quarter, as well -- The Campbell Park Skatepark and the new St. Pete Police Headquarters. The 167,000 square foot police HQ, which includes an offsite shooting range, will cost the city $85 million. The old headquarters will be demolished sometime in 2019 after the new complex is complete.

Near Tropicana Field in Campbell Park, the Campbell Park Skatepark finally broke ground after over 2 years of anticipation. Once the 28,000 square foot skatepark is complete, it will be the largest skatepark in the entire state of Florida.

Also this quarter, some smaller townhome projects started going vertical. District on 9th (34 units) and Skye333 (10 units) started construction near the EDGE District. On 4th Ave South, The Sabal broke ground on four townhomes.

In May, we broke the news of First North Lofts, an 11-story apartment tower that will soon rise near the EDGE District. The 214-unit tower will also include 18,500 square feet of ground-level retail space. Groundbreaking is set for the first quarter of 2018.

ONEkeeps climbing into the St. Pete stratosphere. Currently the condo tower is on floor 30 of 41 and the parking garage is on the 6th and final floor. The Hyatt Place that sits on the same block is scheduled to open by the end of the year.

Lastly, with exciting news, we also bring some disappointing news. We've learned recently that 801 Conway, a 35-unit townhome community located on 8th St North, has been cancelled. Unfortunately, the project was never able to obtain the necessary permits to proceed with construction. No future plans have been made for the land intended for 801 Conway.

As always, be sure to check out our previous downtown development updates to track the progress of all active projects currently under construction (1Q16,2Q16,3Q16,4Q16, 1Q17).

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Construct-A-Lead's comprehensive online construction database supplies the enormous, construction marketplace with valuable information for companies to be able to compete in the multi-billion dollar construction arena. The following construction projects offer users insight into the area's New York construction activity.

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Construct-A-Lead, the industry's most comprehensive construction lead service, announces the following New York projects will go forward. Construct-A-Lead's newly implemented advanced search feature allows the user to find their leads or key contacts by project type, location, bid stage, dollar value, company, or keyword.

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New York, NY Echelon - Plans call for the demolition of the existing building and the new construction of a 535-foot, 40 story tower with 27 units in 59,240 square feet of space. Construction start: Q3, Q4, 2017, $25,000,000. Project ID: 1394627

Long Beach, NY Medical Arts Pavilion Plans call for the new construction of a medical facility that will include an expanded emergency department, primary care, radiology services and room for a variety of medical specialists. Construction start: Q4, 2018, Q1, 2019, $99,000,000 Project ID: 1394721

Buffalo, NY The Forge on Broadway Plans call for the new construction of a 230,000-square-foot development to include 159 apartments, 11,600 SF of retail space and 25 townhomes. Construction start: Q4, 2017, Q1, 2018. $48,000,000 Project ID: 1391645

Ithaca, NY 118 College Avenue - Plans call for the new construction of a 4-story apartment building containing five dwelling units with a total of 28 bedrooms to attract primarily student tenants. Construction start: Q1, Q2, 2018. $1,100,000 Project ID: 1394416

Brooklyn, NY 271 Sea Breeze Avenue Plans call for the new construction of a 22-story, 114-unit mixed-use tower to include 32,000 square feet of community space and 200 parking spaces. Construction start: Q2, Q3, 2018, $40,000,000. Project ID: 1394372

Colonie, NY 123 Everett Rd Plans call for the new construction of a 50,300 SF, 2 story medical office building. Construction start: Q4, 2017, Q1, 2018. $10,000,000. Project ID: 1394693

Construct-A-Lead is an online database that connects users to large-scale commercial construction projects, including those hidden, private project leads.

The service features hotel construction, office buildings, retail construction, medical facilities, school renovations and much more, to help bid on construction including those hard-to-find private project leads, from planning stage through completion. Construct-A-Lead's daily updates of commercial construction project leads are an ideal solution for those who want to put their product or service into commercial, government and religious structures.

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Here in Toronto, installing weeping tile systems on the exterior of the foundation wall is a must if you will be waterproofing the exterior of your homes foundation. Toronto is built on top of a large water aquifer, with hundreds of underground waterways. Many areas of Toronto also have high water table issues, where a good thunderstorm can wreck havoc on a homes foundation. An exterior weeping tile system will remove the water buildup on the outside of your foundation and carry it away safely from your home.

When contractors dig out for a basement, they inevitably remove more earth than is strictly necessary. This could be because the soil is unstable, and they do not want it to collapse against a raw wall. Its usually also to make space for a weeping tile system that can help keep the basement dry forever by removing water from outside your foundation wall so it cannot seep into your basement.

An exterior weeping tile system works in similar fashion as an interior weeping tile system, except that water is removed before it has a chance to seep into your foundation walls. Usually, an interior weeping tile is used when, for whatever reason, the exterior of the foundation cannot be dug out and waterproofed properly.

Once the exterior weeping tile system is installed, contractors backfill the space with the soil they dug out previously. Strictly speaking, they should tamp it down as the wall builds up to ground level and then cover it with a sloping hard-standing to lead the water away from the foundation. Less diligent contractors simply pour in barrow-loads of loose soil at the end of the job, tidy up, request payment and go. This will inevitably lead to water build up against your foundation, and eventually more water leaking through the foundation.

Installing an exterior weeping tile system is a fairly big job as you will need to dig out the foundation of your home, which is why it is very (and I stress very) important to have the exterior weeping tile system installed properly the first time as the only remedy for an improperly installed exterior weeping tile system is to dig out the foundation again and fix it.

Water inevitably finds its way down into the ground to reach the outside of a basement wall, no matter what a homeowner tries to do. If its not percolating down through the backfill, then its seeping betweenthe strata towards it anyway. When that happens, you have only twodefenses:

1. A solid, crack-free, fully waterproofed intact structure comprising walls, floor and sometimes concrete ceiling.

2. A set of weeping tiles installed all around the outside of the foundation, to lead ground water away before it causes damage.

*Weeping tiles are an essential belt-and-braces feature of any well-designed basement. Thats because earth expands, shifts and contracts, and inevitably challenges the structures owndefenses.

How Do Weeping Tiles Work?

Dont be confused by the term weeping tile. Weeping tiles are not tiles at all (although they were once perforated pipes made from clay).These days, weeping tiles are made from 4 diameter plastic pipe regularly punched with holes. The idea being that ground water will find its way into them through the holes, and then follow a gentle incline until it discharges naturally (or enters a sump pump for pumping out).

Before the plastic pipes are buried, they are covered with a long open sock or overlapping socks made from rot-proof permeable material. This prevents the earth from clogging up the holes, much in the same way as the original weeping tiles may have kept the underground ditches clear.

Weeping tile systems also need to be graded properly so that water in the pipes will make its way towards the final discharge point.

Having Weeping Tile Problems?

This is most likely because thelong, open socks (or holes in old clay pipes) have become clogged. Thesedays, this can largely be avoided by covering the pipes with fine gravel. Unfortunately, when they do clogtheres little option but to dig them up and lay in new ones. If installed properly, an exterior weeping tile system should work fine for many years.

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The Society of Sculptors will bring about 40 sculptures to Millvale's Riverfront Park as part of the first SculptureFest.

The free festival, slated for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 22, will feature sculptors demonstrating mold making, casting, metal manipulation and clay sculpting at the park's pavilion. Guests visiting Ton Pottery at 220 North Ave. may view owner Dan Kuhn using his pottery wheel and an exhibit of wall sculptures originally planned to hang at the nearby Millvale Studios, now closed because of a recent fire.

The Society of Sculptors, The Frick Art & Historical Center, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area will lead family-friendly, hands-on activities.

Families and individuals will be able to talk with the artists who are demonstrating and ask questions, touch materials and interact, said Duncan MacDiarmid, Society of Sculptors president. So it's very much about a festival that engages people, rather than perhaps a more traditional arts festival where you walk around and look at booths.

I do feel that as human beings we enjoy working with our hands and we enjoy creating; and with so much technology in our lives, we've moved away from that. And this festival is sort of about bringing that back into the spotlight.

These artists, among others, will provide demonstrations on the following topics: Susan Wagner, sculptor of PNC Park's Roberto Clemente statue, and Gadi Leshem, figure modeling; Donna Penoyer, jeweler, turning a clay-like substance into solid metal when heated at a high temperature; Pati Beachley and Ed Parrish, melting and casting aluminum; Anders Anderson of Red Tile Clay Works, mold-making, and James Shipman, wood carving.

MacDiarmid anticipates that most pieces will remain inside the pavilion because it will take a lot of effort to move them around the park.

My hope is that as the festival becomes better known that people will want to start to do that. And it will become Pittsburgh's very own Burning Man (after the annual Black Rock Desert, Nev., festival).

In addition to viewing the art, guests may listen to music from Jeremy Boyle of Joan of Arc, The Working Poor and a live broadcast from The River's Edge online radio station.

Sprezzatura, Grist House Craft Brewery, Frank's Pizza and Chicken, and First Course Cafe will serve refreshments.

Following SculptureFest 2017, Millvale Yoga Collective and Panza Gallery will present the Art and Afterparty from 6 p.m. to midnight at Panza Gallery, 115 Sedgwick St., Millvale.

The free event will feature art from the Pittsburgh Society of Artists' Choice Exhibition, complimentary refreshments and music from the Tim Vitullo Band, Bindley Hardware Co. and We Were Telepathic.

Millvale Yoga Collective owner Jenny Sines, whose studio was located inside the Millvale Studios building, is temporarily holding classes at Panza Gallery and the Boys & Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania. She and the other party organizers plan to raffle art and gift baskets donated from local businesses to raise funds for the artists affected by the fire.

She hopes the event strengthens the creative community in Millvale and continues its momentum, in all mediums: music, art and movement certainly to also help Millvale Studios, but also just to go get people inspired.

Erica Cebzanov is a Tribune-Review contributor.

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Renovations are continuing at a steady pace on the field house at Burl Fowler Stadium. Jacob Webster, with Webster Flooring, checked the tile installation on the visiting teams locker room. The clips between tiles help to level the ceramic tiles for an even surface. The visitors locker room will have two stalls, two urinals, a Bradley hand washing station, all handicapped accessible, a regular shower and handicapped shower. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Gyms near completion, field house ahead of schedule

Progress is continuing steadily on $2.1 million in building projects for the Monett school district over the summer.

Superintendent Brad Hanson and school board members toured the E.E. Camp gymnasium recently. Board members were especially struck by the new LED lights in the gym, brightening the facility much more than in the past. The new heating and air conditioning system in the gym as been finished. Floor work is underway this week. Efforts continue on renovating the locker rooms.

Jason Luebbert with Charles Luebbert Hardwood Floors of Jefferson City continued on the first sanding sweep of the E.E. Camp gymnasium floor on Tuesday morning, part of summer improvement projects at the school district. Luebbert planned to make three more passes over the floor sanding before buffing, waxing, adding two coats of seal then painting. He said repeated annual coats of floor finish had significantly darkened the floor. When finished, the color would be much lighter, like new, and quite visible in the brighter LED lights installed over the summer. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

The new gym floor has been installed at Central Park Elementary, which Hanson called beautiful. Work renovating the locker rooms is nearly completion.

Work is ahead of scheduled on the field house at Burl Fowler Stadium. Hanson hoped crews would complete work in the next three weeks, prior to the beginning of football practice.

APAC, which received the contract for resurfacing the parking lot at Burl Fowler Stadium, plans to begin dirt work on July 10. Hanson hoped for drier weather through mid and late July that would help the contractor finish.

At the high school, Hanson observed cooler weather during graduation on May 19 helped the replaced air conditioning system to handle the capacity crowd after months of minimal functioning on a cobbled together substitute.

The air conditioning system at the high school is now working well, he said. Im very pleased. I think the efficiency and ability to handle the load for the gym and commons will be noticeable.

Gold Mechanical, which has been on site since April, remains on the job, working on one of the dampers in the system. Crews moved on to tackle air conditioning on the field house, a new addition, and the E.E. Camp gym, during their stay.

Replacing the air conditioners over the stage at the high school, serving the gym and the commons, ended up costing around $300,000. Under the long-range facilities plan, the school district planned to spend $100,000 a year replacing heating and cooling systems that are now more than 20 years old.

The emergency work took the place of this summers planned $100,000 replacement of 10 more units.

We dont have any immediate needs there, Hanson said. Weve got funds built into the budget as a contingency just in case, so we can replace a unit if we need to. Next summer we will replace another 10 units. I anticipate in will take us another two or three years before we have all the units at the high school replaced.

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The nine parcels involved in Monday's sale of the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa sold for $5,031,251, or 25 percent less than their total appraised value.

A deed filed Monday showed the Arlington Hotel Co. Inc. sold the four parcels constituting the 478-room hotel to Sky Capital Group LP of San Antonio, Texas, for $4,856,251. The adjacent Wade Building was sold to Sky Wade Building LLC for $75,000, and four nearby parking lot parcels to Sky Southwest Parking LLC for $100,000.

All three purchasing parties listed the same San Antonio address and were incorporated last month by Al Rajabi, who, according to a news release announcing the sale, is the CEO of Sky Capital Group.

Garland County's contract appraisal service valued the four hotel parcels at $5,343,000 and the Wade Building at $411,000. The four other parcels involved in the sale have a total appraised value of $1,111,550. The Garland County Equalization Board lowered the value of the hotel parcels from $8.07 million to $5.34 million after the company appealed the county's contract service appraisal in 2015.

Monday's sale did not include the Hot Springs Golf and Country Club Association, which has the same owners as the Arlington Hotel Co.

Mike Scott, the city of Hot Springs' chief building official, said Tuesday that after a buyer had been secured the Arlington's ownership stopped making repairs to comply with the notice of unsafe conditions the city issued in June 2016.

Scott said some of the property's roofs were repaired, and the wooden pool deck was removed. Last year's notice said the deck's bracing was rotted. Scott said the deck has been replaced by metal bridges leading to the concrete patio around the pool.

Scott said he's told the new ownership that exterior problems identified in the notice need to be remedied before winter.

"We agreed the exterior of the building needs to be worked on pretty quickly," he said. "I'd like to see those problems addressed before they go through another freeze and thaw this winter. (The city) is more concerned with the outside, the roof and other big ticket items that need to be fixed."

Scott said when Rajabi was considering purchasing the property he asked what repairs would be needed to comply with last year's notice.

"I've been in talks with him about what would be required," he said. "He had a lot of advisers and other people come in and look at the building. He was trying to decide if he did buy the building what would get worked on first."

The late Morin M. "Monty" Scott Jr., the former owner of the hotel, told the equalization board in 2015 it would take $45-50 million to modernize the property.

"It involves closing the hotel for two years, scaffolding the whole thing, redoing all the windows, waterproofing all the bricks, redoing all the fretwork on top, the towers, the tile work, re-plumbing and electrifying the hotel," he said.

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New deck, interior surface, mechanical upgrades among the list of projects

Right after Labor Day, the Hannibal YMCA plans to have a completely revamped pool ready for action, from its new interior surface all the way up to its freshly-painted ceiling.

Aquatics and Marketing Director Kayla Williams said Bleigh Construction crew members began the project Monday, July 10, stripping the old tile surface. Williams said will be replaced with a grippier epoxy finish. The pool will be closed until Tuesday, Sept. 5 during the multi-stage project that spans from replacing the pools interior surface to mechanical upgrades for back filter room and the heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC) system. Williams said that several stages will take place to make the pool more comfortable and give the entire area a fresh look for members including a new coat of paint for the walls and ceiling.

We want them to walk into a whole new environment, so were pretty excited to see what the end result is going to be, Williams said.

In addition to installing new surfaces inside the pool and on the surrounding area, crews will upgrade the back filter room and perform improvements on the hot tub. Williams also said the HVAC system will receive a new diffuser to disperse airflow more evenly throughout the pool area.

Executive Director/CEO Eric Abts said the project is estimated to cost between $400,000 and $450,000. During the second day of work, crew members had removed a majority of the tiles that once surrounded the pool, hot tub and other sections. Abts commended the Quincy YMCA and Twin Pikes YMCA in Louisiana for partnering with the Hannibal YMCA to offer indoor recreational swimming locations for members. He also thanked the Hannibal Aquatic Center, Palmyra Community Pool and the Hannibal Country Club for assisting with swim team activities and aquatics classes. And most of all, Abts wanted to say thank you to the wonderful and understanding members during the project.

Williams said the YMCA will close for its annual repairs and deep cleaning Saturday Aug. 26, and YMCA staff members plan to have the revamped pool ready when the rest of the Y reopens Tuesday, Sept. 5. She noted that taking care of all of the projects at once will be more efficient and easier for members, and the improvements are expected to remain durable for years. For Williams, the project reflects the family atmosphere she experiences every day at the Hannibal YMCA.

Thats why I love working here. I could go work anywhere, but its definitely that family atmosphere and thats what we want to keep, she said. And even with our staff, weve just got that rapport with each other, and we just hope that kind of spills out to our members, as well. Everything that we do is for our members, and were hoping that were meeting their needs for sure.

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PHOTO BORIS PROULXThe minister of aboriginal Affairs and Northern development dr. Carolyn Bennett reiterated his full confidence as to the result of the investigation in the Ottawa Parliament on Tuesday.

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OTTAWA | The wide survey on violence against aboriginal women would be too colonial for the commissioner who resigned Tuesday.

The Saskatchewanaise Marilyn Poitras announced on Tuesday that it resigns its role as a commissioner in the national Survey of women and girls missing and murdered aboriginal (ENFFADA), dissatisfied with the organization, created by the Trudeau government at a cost of nearly$54 Million.

It was the structure [of the Investigation] too colonialist, includes the commissioner of the Quebec Michle Audette, who ensures that the work will continue as planned.

It is a federal law that creates the commission of inquiry, we knew that this was not a large gathering where indigenous laws take precedence, says Ms. Audette.

The ex-president of aboriginal Women of Canada understands, however, his colleague, having left his duties given the intense and politicized, which is to meet with families of victims across Canada.

Theres a lot of pressure. It is normal that people prefer to leave the boat , she explains.

In his letter of resignation, Ms. Poitras has written to the prime minister that she is not able to perform [its] tasks in this structure , suggesting that the problems plaguing the organization.

This year, five other employees have left the investigation, including the director-general Michle Moreau for personal reasons in July.

Anxiety

There are reasons to worry when you see [the number of] commissioners to melt in the sun , reacts Mlissa Mollen-Dupuis, co-founder of the indigenous movement Idle No More Qubec.

The militant indigenous indicates, however, that it does not doubt the ability of the Inquiry to do its work on the ground.

You dont want to lose the commission on the details, added Mrs. Mollen-Dupuis.

The minister of aboriginal Affairs and Northern development dr. Carolyn Bennett has also reiterated its confidence to the four commissioners remaining on Tuesday, and insisted on the fact that he is an independent organization of the government.

I think that the concerns [in the face of these resignations] will improve [the Investigation], I hope, for a better communication with the victims, summed up the minister.

She has no intention for now to change its calendar, and is still awaiting a preliminary report for November. The investigation must always spend a week in Quebec from November 27, Maliotenam, near Sept-les

Tight deadlines

The Investigation officially took shape last September to find out why so many aboriginal women are murdered or are missing in Canada.

Managers find it difficult to carry out this mission by the deadline, scheduled for the fall of 2018.

Get a local took almost six months, so that controlling a simple computer can take up to four months.

The system is so heavy, says Michle Audette, who states that the government has offered a beautiful collaboration during the process.

The commissioners remaining could request additional time for the government to carry out their mandate.

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Why: Because it's wet and it's not a mirage. In the middle of Death Valley, that's enough.

What: From the 1920s until recently, this place was known as the Inn at Furnace Creek and its pool (fed by underwater springs) was the most glamorous body of water for miles around. It was the fanciest lodging in Death Valley National Park, but it would close down in summer because the valleygets so beastly hot. In June,however, managementannounced a $50-million facelift and name change: The Furnace Creek Resort area (which includes the 66-room inn and a more casual224-room "ranch") is getting a big upgradeand a new set of names.

Beginning this summer, the area will collectively be called the Oasis at Death Valley.The inn with this fancy pool (formerlythe Inn at Furnace Creek) is nowThe Inn at Death Valley. It'sclosed for the summer and will reopen Nov. 2 as a year-round lodging.The moreaffordableFurnace Creek Ranch (which also has a pool) is nowthe Ranch at Death Valley. It remains open through the summer, though parts will close as renovations go on.

Thisdoesn't necessarily mean you should go now. It means you should know now. Go when you will be comfortable -- and when the hoteliers can promise you won't be bothered by renovation work.

Where: The Oasis at Death Valley (a.k.a Furnace CreekResort) is 289 miles northeast of downtown L.A.

How much: Checking the first weekend inApril 2018, I found prices (before taxes and resort fees) starting at $409to $528a night at the inn and $239 to $259 at the ranch.

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