Beanie Baby

In 2009, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner 's four hotels, including the Four Seasons New York, weren't generating enough cash flow to qualify for an automatic extension of their mortgage without Mr. Warner making concessions.

Famous Hoteliers Get Wake-Up Call Kris Hudson 2012

Meanwhile, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner's Ty Warner Hotels and Resorts reached a deal this week to extend by two years its mortgage on several resorts, including the 368-room Four Seasons New York, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Four Seasons Maui Delinquent on Mortgage Kris Hudson 2010

Meanwhile, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner's Ty Warner Hotels and Resorts reached a deal last week to extend by two years its mortgage on several resorts, including the 368-room Four Seasons New York, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Four Seasons Maui on Ropes Kris Hudson 2010

Meanwhile, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner's Ty Warner Hotels and Resorts reached a deal last week to extend by two years its mortgage on several resorts, including the 368-room Four Seasons New York, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Four Seasons Maui on Ropes Kris Hudson 2010

Meanwhile, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner's Ty Warner Hotels and Resorts reached a deal this week to extend by two years its mortgage on several resorts, including the 368-room Four Seasons New York, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Four Seasons Maui Delinquent on Mortgage Kris Hudson 2010

Meanwhile, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner's Ty Warner Hotels and Resorts reached a deal this week to extend by two years its mortgage on several resorts, including the 368-room Four Seasons New York, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Four Seasons Maui Delinquent on Mortgage Kris Hudson 2010

Meanwhile, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner's Ty Warner Hotels and Resorts reached a deal last week to extend by two years its mortgage on several resorts, including the 368-room Four Seasons New York, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Four Seasons Maui on Ropes Kris Hudson 2010

Meanwhile, Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner's Ty Warner Hotels and Resorts reached a deal this week to extend by two years its mortgage on several resorts, including the 368-room Four Seasons New York, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Four Seasons Maui Delinquent on Mortgage Kris Hudson 2010

The one that might pay your kids 'way through college: the Beanie Baby collection.

Time To Short Beanies? 2008

(To see photos of the new MRAP, the PRT team leader, me at the council meeting with the new radio antenna in the background, a happy street scene in Hit, a sad street scene in Berkeley and us fighting over the last Beanie Baby, go to my blog.)

Irony: I'm over here safe in Iraq and my neighbor just got shot to death in Berkeley 2008