This week on the Mompreneurs podcast, Kawana Jefferson offers a glimpse into her life as a serial restaurateur. With a bar and grill, seafood restaurant, and ice cream shop across the New York metropolitan area, Jefferson sat down with Mompreneurs host and New York Times bestselling author Nancy Redd to discuss how she is balancing her growing hospitality empire while raising two boys at home.
(Eurweb.com) *Jay-Z has scrapped plans to build a luxury hotel in his native New York after the venture became mired in litigation, reports the New York Post. The rap mogul and his business partners have reportedly pulled out of the J Hotel project altogether and returned the site to its lenders for $52 million. Jay-Z’s […]
(Afro) — On Nov. 10, Washington, D.C. Chairman-elect Kwame R. Brown, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray and leaders from the Washington Convention and Sports Authority (WCSA) gathered to inaugurate ground in the District’s historic Shaw neighborhood in preparation for the 2014 opening of the Marriott Marquis Convention Center Hotel, located at Ninth […]
(Crain’s) — New York City has plenty of boutique-style hotels—the intentionally trendy, unique lodgings meant to appeal to guests who don’t want to stay in a cookie-cutter Sheraton or Hilton. A bevy of hotels bearing such quirky names as Andaz, Indigo and Aloft opened this year. And even more are on the way. About half […]