For many of us, International House of Pancakes is as much a part of Saturday and Sunday morning as church services or the cartoons of our youth. Basic buttermilk, chocolate chip, or the German, French and Swedish pancakes that give the Glendale...
Although it has been one of the nation's busiest real estate developers in the past five years, Continental Real Estate Cos. has somehow kept a fairly low profile...
A number of finance sites have come and gone in the past couple of years. But ever since it went online in November 1999, Atlanta-based NetFunding.com has watched its business steadily grow. The site closed more than $150 million in commercial...
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., affected and changed our lives in many different and significant ways. As the walls of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one could hardly imagine the impact of...
Sixteen years ago, Don and Lani Dolifka noticed a warning on their water bill. It said the water in their community had been declared unsafe for pregnant women and infants. This unsettling news prompted the Dolifkas to take action. Working from...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Borders Books and Music superstores. In 1971 two brothers, Tom and Louis Borders, founded the original store — a used bookshop — on Ann Arbor's University of Michigan campus. Having developed a computerized...
E-commerce is out of industry executives' minds as they focus on more tangible threats, according to SCW's 2002 Industry Forecast survey of top owners, developers, managers and lenders. Survey respondents say the economy will be their No.1 concern...
