Posted on 10/30/2011 7:25:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Joel Cantor
Signature Developer
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 2 It’s great to see the best project in the bay area rise.[/QUOTE]
I appreciate all the kind words from you guys. I visited the project yesterday and it really is looking stunning. The lobby will be like no other. We installed a 30 foot high Onyx stone back lit with LED flat panels. Onyx is a semi-precious stone we found in Austraila. My vision has finally become reality. Creating good architecture can be a lot of fun, but getting it built requires payment in blood, sweat, and fits of anger and a huge dose of determination. I’d be glad to put you on our opening party invite and show you all around..sometime in April. Simply email Debbie Newman at debbienewman@signaturestpete.com.
Joel Cantor
Signatrue Place Developer/Owner
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=431023&page=11
when Cantor’s chances of selling so many empty Signature Place condos seemed dim. The 36-story building became a symbol of big Florida dreams smacked by a crushing real estate collapse.
The saga of Signature Place, from its inception in 2005 to its selling out late last month, is an economic soap opera. It stars a go-for-broke Cantor, bold architects, big-scale builders, a bevy of nervous bank lenders, lawyers galore and buyers first wowed by the condo tower’s pre-recession cachet, then angered by unit prices that soon felt sky high in a fast-falling real estate market.
No matter. Cantor bulled his way to the finish line. He schmoozed with his reluctant Midwest bankers backing the project. He calmed the wait-a-minute real estate lawyers. Along the way, he filled a huge condo tower in a regional market where many other high-end condos in downtown St. Petersburg, in Tampa’s Channelside and in Clearwater still tread water.
Cantor even claims a profit despite the big price reductions he was forced to offer. He first knocked 33 percent off the initial prices at Signature Place to keep most of his condo buyers from feeling like they were getting fleeced.
http://www.newmanre.com/blog/2010/10/joel-cantor-rays-stadium-on-horizon/
MOOCHY CALLS FOR UNION TACTICS TO GET BARACK RE-ELECTED.
Moochy doesn’t need to do all the voter shaking herself. The Working Families Party and Richard Trumka with his SEIU and AFL-CIO union thugs know exactly how to get the President re-elected. I can just hear the purple shirt wearing thugs now. “You pull the lever for Barack or I pull the trigger on this gun to your head!”
(THE DAILY CALLER) – The president is facing a very tough re-election campaign, first lady Michelle Obama told audiences at three Florida fundraisers on Thursday.
“This is going to require each of you to grab somebody by the shoulders and make them understand what’s at stake; how their self-interest is directly tied … It’s up to each of you to work like you’ve never worked before,” Mrs. Obama told an afternoon crowd of 200 people at the waterfront Tampa home of property developer Joel Cantor.
She used the same mix of threats and promises at a lunchtime fundraiser in Jacksonville. “This is not a joke. The choices are clear. We need you fired up and ready to go, working hard every minute of the day,” she said at the end of her stump speech. “We don’t have time to joke around. You got to shake people up. You got to get them ready to roll. We can do this.”
The first lady’s alarmist tone is certainly justified by the polls, which show her husband trailing in swing states, low in national surveys, disadvantaged by the national mood and nearly out of time to spur an election-saving economic recovery.
Quote via: the Daily Caller.
http://gillreport.com/2011/10/moochy-calls-for-union-tactics-to-get-barack-re-elected/
Mrs. Obama’s Tampa fundraiser, for example, charged $1,000 for general admission, $5,000 for admission and a photo with the first lady, and $38,500 to be included on the official host committee. That $38,500 price includes donations to the Democratic National Committee.
Her evening event at Jacksonville drew roughly 300 people, mostly women, according to a report from the White House press pool. The evening featured two African-American celebrities, singer Deborah Cox and Tracy Mourning, the wife of retired professional basketball player Alonzo Mourning. Tickets cost $500 and the host committee paid $25,000 each.
Campaign officials declined to say how much money the events raised.
At all five fundraisers, the first lady argued that Americans have responsibility to each other, that President Obama is a progressive leader who empathizes with the needs of Americans, and that government can address those needs.
“We can’t separate our individual stories from the broader American story,” she declared in Tampa. “Like it or not, we’re all in this together. And that’s how it should be.”
Barack Obama confirms Australia visit, set down for November
THE White House confirmed that Barack Obama will visit Australia for the first time as President in November - immediately after the APEC leaders; meeting he will host in Hawaii.
It will be the third attempt by the US President to make the trip after a visit was postponed twice early last year because of pressure to remain in Washington during a critical debate over passing health reforms, and later to cope with a disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A statement issued by the White House follows a report in The Australian last week that Mr Obama had accepted an invitation from Prime Minister Julia Gillard to visit Australia.
Mr Obama’s visit on November 16 and 17 is officially linked to marking the 60th anniversary of the ANZUS defence alliance between the two countries.
You forgot about South Africa's Winnie Mandela.
Romania had one, Ceausescu, and so did the Philippines, Marcos.
And Canada. Margaret Trudeau, but she was just a crazy hippie,
"I’m not going to kid you,” she told the guests, who paid as much as $35,800 for the appearance.
Irony?
Except she claims she's Christian. But, yes, I searched and it is customary for muslims to eat with their hands, specifically their right hand which she seems to always be doing. Haven't we also heard that they don't leave anything on their plates? That's also an islamic practice. If pictures don't lie, then she just outted herself as a practicing muslim.
With all the pork chops and bacon MooseChelle has gobbled on camera, I think you’re barking up the wrong tree, LOL.
The MSM had important stuff to work on, like the status of Joe Wurzelbacher's trade license and the DNA of Palin's Down Syndrome child.
That said, methinks that John Semmens might have enough for a full column, here.
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Road Trip!!
Agreed. Grist for the mill, John?
Someone needs to alert Clark Pest Control. Try to get a package fee because that building has lots of rooms!!! Offer a reward for each prayer rug found after Jan 20, 2013.
I don’t EVER remember seeing Laura Bush eating with her fingers!!!!
Thanks!!
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