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Just for the sake of argument, imagine a very different street-level downtown than the one we have in San Jose today, one designed for lingering rather than quick passage.
As you stroll underneath Highway 280 on First Street, you look up and see an underpass decorated like Lego bricks. On Almaden Boulevard, you see people stopping at exercise hubs, roller-skating, or biking on green lanes.
At the corner of San Carlos and Market streets, you spot a two-story mural designed to resemble a forest. You stop to plug your laptop into a mobile solar energy post. Then you cross the street on a blue crosswalk etched with markings that resemble teeth.
A new plan for downtown by CMG Landscape Architecture suggests brightly colored sidewalks and murals. ( CMG Landscape Architecture )
When you finally turn left on Santa Clara Street toward the SAP Center, you see a huge sculpture in the middle of the street, maybe even a shark crushing a hockey stick.
If there's one word to describe all this, it might be playfulness. The notion is to infuse life into downtown's streets by giving people things to do and see and enjoy.
A 191-page booklet prepared by San Francisco landscape architectural firm of CMG, the guys who were also picked to help Facebook, turns San Jose's conventions on their head.
The original planners of downtown's rebirth 30 years ago wanted a well-mannered center city. These guys embrace thoughtful clutter (see the plan at http://sjdowntown.com/groundwerx)
Filling space
At a recent meeting of the San Jose Downtown Association, which commissioned the study, landscape architect Willett Moss, a likeable man in his early 40s, explained that the idea, in its most basic sense, was to fill up San Jose's empty spaces.
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But landscapers say now is still a good time to put in plants and trees, they just may cost you a little more and look a little different.
Businesses and home owners have more options for landscaping than they probably realize.
Even though officials with Longo Landscaping say business is down with the drought, they're finding new ways to make yards come alive.
Landscape coordinator Micheal Hague says landscaping in the drought is about efficiency and planning for when we do get rain.
That's why his latest project has a desert theme.
It includes drought resistant plants and grass.
Doing things where you don't have to do big expansive areas of grass, doing just decorate gravel areas, you know there are so many things you can do with gravel these days as far as coloring and then boulders, there are things like that that give you color without having to plant stuff, says Hague.
Being adaptable has helped his company survive during the drought, despite having less business.
Our business is down about 60% from last year, it's been a struggle, but like i said it's gone from more stone laying than it has to landscaping, we're doing more hardscaping, says Hague.
And to keep what they do plant alive he installed two types of drip systems..one for the Bermuda grass and one for plants.
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City hotel landscape changing
Daily Mail Business Editor
Craig Cunningham
Albany, N.Y.-based BBL Hospitality spent $15 million to renovate the Four Points Sheraton, a 12-story hotel, 176-room hotel, formerly known as the Charleston House Hotel.
CHARLESTON, WV -- Charleston's hotel landscape is changing.
In the past year, two city hotels have changed brands while construction continues on a new one in the heart of downtown. Meanwhile, plans are moving along for a new hotel along MacCorkle Avenue in Kanawha City.
In January, Charleston officials celebrated the grand opening of the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, formerly the Charleston House Hotel, located at 600 Kanawha Boulevard East.
Albany, N.Y.-based BBL Hospitality spent $15 million to renovate the hotel. Work took just over a year to complete and involved in the replacement of nearly everything in the hotel.
"There was a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into this," Keith McClanahan, senior vice president of BBL Carlton of Charleston, said at the grand opening ceremony.
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Deep inside the Wolgan Valley towering sandstone cliffs loom in every direction.
We ride our bicycles towards the morning mist as it rises through scrappy eucalypt tress and parched grasses. Anywhere else, this rugged landscape would make you feel small, insignificant. But here at Emirates Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa it's the tiny details that will leave you feeling like a king.
The luxury resort set over 1600 hectares near Lithgow in the Blue Mountains has just been named the number one resort in Australia by travellers on Trip Advisor. It's an award they take very seriously. It's an award earned through focussing on the smallest of details and making sure they are all just right.
Over lunch in the Country Kitchen Wolgan Valley general manager Joost Heymeijer spots an open balcony door on one of the 40 villa suites. It shouldn't be open with the wind picking up he says and radios for maintenance to come and close it before the wind pulls the hinges. The door is at least 500m away. We can't even see it.
Heymeijer is known for doing this. He started his hotel training at age 11 as a dish boy before becoming a waiter, training as a chef and working his way right up to the top of hotels in Europe and Australia. He's been with the resort for eight years - it's been open for four.
Staff say Heymeijer straightens tables as he walks through the restaurant and can spot a blemish not visible to any guest's eye. You could say this resort is his baby - he knows when one hair is out of place. That hair will be fixed.
So it's no surprise that the rooms here are immaculate. Every single one of the 40 suites has its own indoor private pool - the smallest of which is 7m by 2.5m. The pool is heated with solar power to 27C between 6am and 11pm.
In the lounge room an open gas fireplace is set into sandstone. An old map of the valley slides up to reveal a flat screen TV that can be angled to face anywhere in the room or even the adjoining balcony. The minibar has a coffee machine that not only warms the milk, but cools it for iced coffees.
In the bathroom the attention to detail - to meeting and exceeding every guests' desires - is most apparent. Here the toilet paper is not just folded into attractive little triangles - it's folded and stamped down with Wolgan Valley's signature sticker - the Wollemi Pine. A deep recessed bath sits under the window offering a view of kangaroos, wallabies and wallaroos bounding across the property at dusk and dawn.
The shower is topped with a clear glass skylight allowing naked guests to gaze up at the stars at night and to watch wisps of grass caught in the wind during the day.
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For about 30 years, the Coval House has stood on a wooded, 5-acre estate as one of Mercer Islands dream homes. Its owners, research scientists Myer and Barbara Coval, lavished so much money on landscaping, rooms and a tropical pool that HGTV showcased the home on its Million Dollar Rooms show.
Cathedral-like ceilings are built with wood shipped from the Republic of Congo and Costa Rica. The landscape includes more than 300 trees, an organic fruit orchard and a koi pond.
The amenities of a $10 million pool are so intricate, it took contractors five years to finish.
You step inside, and it just blows you away and the swimming pool room is out of this world, said Linda Chaves, 63, a neighbor whos been invited to the home occasionally for neighborhood parties.
Now the estate is close to becoming the exact opposite of all that: A proposal the Mercer Island City Council says it will decide Monday night could make the property the largest residential development on the island since the 1980s.
The proposal from a developer buying the property, MI 84th Limited Partnership, registered in Washington under Garth Schlemlein, would level the mansion and much of its landscape to build 18 single-family homes in its place. The developer would also chop the top off a hill on the property that is close to a steep slope, prompting some neighbors to worry about the hill becoming destabilized.
Chaves said she imagined the property would become some kind of development because it seemed the Covals had trouble selling it since it went on the market in 2011 with an initial listing price of $15.5 million.
The Covals were devastated by not being able to find a buyer who would invest in preserving the property as is, said David Paul Eck, who spent years designing much of the homes interior. He said they at first refused to believe an appraiser who said only a developer would likely ever take on the property. But after two years of no serious offers, they reluctantly agreed the appraiser was right.
We tried hard to find somebody of a like mind, but the world doesnt turn that way anymore, said Eck. Nobody stepped up.
But because Chaves and others didnt expect the development to so drastically change the landscape, theyve banded together in hopes that the next phase of life for the property can keep some semblance of its last.
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