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| Watergate will forever be notorious as the site of the Democratic National Committee break-in. But the buildings that make up the Watergate complex have a long list of A-list residents influential in politics, public policy, the arts and business. “What we really love about living at the Watergate is that it’s very dog-friendly,” says former Sen. Elizabeth Dole. | | |  |
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| Patrick Dovigi’s preferred method of getting to his cottage is chartered seaplane. From his Toronto home, it is a 45-minute trip to the dock at his 3½-acre private island in Canada’s Muskoka region. While the area has long attracted Canada’s business elite and celebrities like model Cindy Crawford, newer arrivals are replacing rustic cabins with cliff-top mansions, changing what it means to be a “cottager” here. |
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE | | |  |
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| In 1981, a young and ambitious Donald Trump sat down with federal agents and discussed his calculation in entering the mob-infested world of Atlantic City casinos. He acknowledged it might tarnish the reputation his family built through traditional real-estate development in New York. There, as well as in his New York real-estate work, Mr. Trump, now the Republican nominee for president, sometimes dealt with people who had ties to organized crime, a Wall Street Journal examination of his career shows. |
HOUSE OF THE DAY | | |  |
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| Jason Owen and Sam Easley aren’t afraid of a project. So they weren’t put off when they saw this 1890s house in Sullivan’s Island, S.C. ‘There was no pool. There was no garage. It was weeds everywhere. Old carpet. But it had this incredible charm that I could not shake,’ says Mr. Owen. |
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| A Manhattan triplex listed for $9.75 million comes with wood-burning fireplaces, an ivy-walled garden and an aura created by its rich past of hosting the famous—from Henry Kissinger to Angelina Jolie. The owners, media power couple Tina Brown and Harold Evans, have spent nearly 20 years in the maisonette. | | |  |
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| Westfield Corp., the Australian shopping-center company with 35 malls including lower Manhattan’s Westfield World Trade Center, has tapped Broadway producer Scott Sanders to lead its entertainment offerings. |
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