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BRIEFCASE SIZZLER FRANCHISES TO OPEN IN CHINA?


Byline: - Staff and Wire Services

SHERMAN OAKS - Worldwide Restaurant Concepts on Friday announced a joint venture agreement with Minor Food Group Pcl, a subsidiary of Royal Garden Resorts Pcl, to develop franchise opportunities for Sizzler siz·zler  
n.
1. One that sizzles.

2. Informal A very hot day.
 eateries in China.

Two franchised restaurants are expected to be operating in the country within the next 12 months.

Sex-assault unit keeps operating

NORTHRIDGE - Though it closed its Sherman Way campus earlier this week, Northridge Hospital Medical Center Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in the Northridge town of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West. History
The hospital was founded in 1955 by Dr.
 announced Friday that it will keep its sexual-assault response team that had been based at the Van Nuys facility operating.

The nine-member group, which works with law enforcement groups to collect forensic evidence after rapes and child abuse, will continue in an annex to the shuttered facility before moving to the main hospital in several months.

``It was the only sexual-assault program for the Valley, so we weren't going to let that close,'' said Carey Stanton, the hospital's marketing and communications manager.

Tenet turns over 3 local hospitals

Tenet Healthcare Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) is an operating company that owns and operates 57 hospitals in the United States [1]. It is based in Dallas, Texas. Its stock ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is NYSE: THC.  Corp. said Friday that several of its subsidiaries have completed the previously announced transfer of assets The conveyance of something of value from one person, place, or situation to another.

The law recognizes that persons are generally entitled to transfer their assets to whomever they wish and for whatever reason. The most common means of transfer are wills, trusts, and gifts.
 of three acute care hospitals in West Los Angeles
  • West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, a neighborhood of Los Angeles
  • West Los Angeles (region), a popularly identified region of Los Angeles, incorporating the neighborhood above
 to Centinela Freeman HealthSystem Centinela Freeman HealthSystem operates three hospitals in located in the West Los Angeles area of California in the United States, collectively known as the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center:
  • Centinela Campus in Inglewood; formerly known as
.

The hospitals are 370-bed Centinela Hospital Medical Center and 358- bed Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Inglewood, and 166-bed Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital in Marina del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
  • Del Rey, California, a census-designated place in Fresno County, California
  • Del Rey, Los Angeles, California, a small district in the west side of Los Angeles
  • Del Rey (band), an indie rock band
.

Net after-tax proceeds are estimated to be approximately $47 million, including the liquidation of working capital and tax benefits. The company expects to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes.

The three West Los Angeles hospitals are among 27 hospitals Tenet announced it was divesting Jan. 28, 2004. Tenet has completed the divestiture of 10 of the 27 facilities and has entered into definitive agreements to divest an additional 11 hospitals. Discussions and negotiations with potential buyers for the remaining six hospitals are ongoing, the company said.

Festival Cos. buys Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, city (1990 pop. 108,751), seat of Linn co., E central Iowa, on the Cedar River; inc. as a city 1856. The second largest city in Iowa, it is named for the surging rapids in the river.  mall

Los Angeles-based The Festival Cos. announced on Friday the completion of its purchase and majority ownership of Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from The Rouse Co. of Columbia, Md.

The Festival Cos., now the managing partner of Westdale Mall, also acquired two former anchors, Montgomery Wards and Younkers Younkers is a department store chain in the Midwestern United States. The chain concentrates on the middle and upper-class segments of the market. History
Beginnings
, bringing its total ownership at Westdale Mall to 873,270 square feet of retail space.

The company also announced its plans to invest about $20 million in updating and expanding the center. Festival has hired the original architect on the mall to work on the upgrade project.

The Festival Cos., a real estate advisory firm and shopping center developer, has developed or redeveloped more than 100 retail projects from regional malls to open-air centers throughout Southern California and other markets nationwide.

Its recent projects include a $90 million transformation of the 1950s-era Buena Park Mall in Orange County.
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