Voracious budget hotel builder Sam Chang got some serious ink in the Times this weekend, with Charles Bagli chronicling the developer's rise, fall (bankruptcy #1), rise, fall (bankruptcy #2) and rise. Fun facts regarding the lover of cheap architecture and pioneer of the "three pack": The recession has forced him to delay his retirement until 2013 (and fire his bodyguard), he has 176 kajillion more hotels planned, he refers to himself in the third person and loads of people?particularly unions?hate him. [NYT; previously]
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