The Ritz Hotel, London 300 people were evacuated to the nearby May Fair Hotel following a fire alarm in the hotel. No one was hurt in the blaze, which started in the basement casino kitchen's extraction vents. The Ritz casino only suffered "minor damage". Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was convalescing at the Ritz when she died following a stroke on 8 April 2013. There has been criticism because the Ritz has not paid any corporation tax since being taken over by the Barclay twins. The accounts indicate that the profitable hotel uses a series of tax reliefs to reduce its corporation tax
Ritz Hotel Project Ritz Hotel Project The Ritz Hotel Project was a collaboration between New York City's COLAB group and Washington, D.C.'s Washington Project for the Arts. The idea was that the two groups would collaborate to produce an event similar to COLAB's Times Square Show (1980), where the New York group occupied a building in the then-dilapidated red-light District that Times Square was in 1983. The Ritz Hotel Project took place in downtown Washington, D.C. in the Spring of 1983 at 920 F St., one block from the Martin Luther King Memorial Library. Artists removed the plywood covering the building's entrance and