PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Ticker) – After a year away the Champions Tour returns to Mexico for the inaugural $1.6 million Puerto Vallarta Golf Classic starting Friday at the Vista Vallarta Golf Club. The Jack Nicklaus designed course has previously hosted a World Golf Championships event and will be the site of the first senior circuit [...]
It was early enough that the sun had not yet crested the mountains that slide into Conchas Chinas Bay at the south end of Puerto Vallarta. A teenage boy pushed a yellow plastic kayak through rock outcroppings and dropped an anchor. Wearing goggles but no snorkel, he slipped into the water and disappeared. Thirty seconds [...]
Ever since a cab driver in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, dubbed my father-in-law “El Jefe” (the head, or chief), that’s how I’ve thought of him. Thomas B. Battles is a take-charge guy who knows what he wants. And more often than not, what he wants most is a good dinner in a good restaurant. So when [...]
Laurence Geller Strategic Hotel Capital Inc. (d/b/a Strategic Hotels and Resorts) is planning to build a luxury, all-suite resort and approximately 55 homes on 47.5 oceanfront acres in Nayarit, Mexico, CEO Laurence Geller told CPN today. Strategic paid $29.5 million to its competitor, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, for the La Solana Hotel and Villas development [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Mexico – Maybe it was the impossibly bright orange sunset over the Pacific Ocean, the sound of waves crashing onto the shore, briefly disturbing the peace and the silence around us. Or it may have been the eclectic crowd – old hippies, yuppies and the ultrarich – enjoying the isolated innocence on an [...]