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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan hopes to convince U.S. tech firms to invest more in London.Leon Neal | Getty ImagesSadiq Khan, the mayor of London, traveled to California as part of a trade mission to try to convince Silicon Valley tech leaders to invest more money in the U.K. capital.On Tuesday, Khan met with senior tech bosses including Google Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat, venture capital investors and entrepreneurs from the Bay Area.The London mayor ultimately hopes to bolster what is already a strong relationship…

Prologis Inc. PLD -4.70% said it has offered to buy Duke Realty Corp. DRE 2.93% in a $23.7 billion deal, as one of the country’s largest warehouse owners seeks to add more space serving the e-commerce market. Prologis operates warehouses around the world for customers at the crux of online shopping, including Amazon.com Inc., Walmart Inc. and…

The ocean views from the most expensive mansion to ever sell in Encinitas, CA.Rancho PhotosA $23.5 million modern mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Southern California is set to officially hit the market on May 14, and in doing so become the most expensive home ever up for sale in the town of Encinitas, California — a coastal community about 26 miles north of San Diego.The home's eight-figure asking price is more than double what it sold for less than six years ago."Coupled with the high demand for luxury housing…

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn.—Tom and Barb Hansen’s search for a retirement spot reads like the script to a road movie. California’s Lake Tahoe. Sedona and Scottsdale in Arizona. The Ozark Mountains of Missouri. Myrtle Beach, S.C.Over a decade or so, the couple traveled the country to imagine life after Mr. Hansen retired as president of a community bank in the suburbs west of Chicago. In 2018, the Hansens, ages 61 and 60, picked rural Sevier County, Tenn. A lot of other people had the…

If you are familiar with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary work you must know the image that the American author’s work conjures. Fitzgerald’s notable work The Great Gatsby is a close representation of the 20s Jazz Age romps through the French Riviera, Long Island’s Gold Coast, or Roaring ’20s Manhattan. Most of Fitzgerald’s work was inspired by his lived experiences and one of the muses of the author was the Lake Forest, Illinois. According to Town & Country, Kingdom Come Farm, the sprawling mansion built in 1906 by…

ARDOIX, France—After 15 years of manufacturing entirely in Asia, French sportswear firm Salomon SAS, eager to cut emissions and reduce bottlenecks, decided it was time to start making its signature sports shoes at home. The challenge, in a country where shoemaking died out years ago, was how to build the necessary supply chain. The first phase of Salomon’s solution was to build an automated sneaker factory in this small town near the Alps. It also redesigned its shoes, drastically shrinking its supply chain…

Peter Thiel has properties all over the world but a proposed luxury lodge in New Zealand may not come to fruition.Marco Bello | Getty ImagesThe future of Peter Thiel's luxury lodge on New Zealand's South Island hangs in the balance after a senior planner for the local council said the tech billionaire's development should be rejected on environmental grounds.In a 978-page report published Monday, Sarah Gathercole, a senior planner for Queenstown Lakes District Council, recommended that planning permission be refused as…

A camera recognizes employees’ faces and hails an elevator programmed to bring them to their floor. Sensors on the walls measure particles and CO2 levels in meeting rooms, pumping in fresh air when levels rise too high. Higher levels of certain particles mean it is more likely that viruses could be present. In a control room, big screens show every floor in the 23-story building. The headquarters, completed in 2021, is at the forefront of a quiet revolution sweeping through commercial buildings across the U.S. Office…