Westgate Resorts is an American timeshare resort company founded by David A. Siegel in 1982.
43-710: Westgate or West Gate may refer to: Companies [ edit ] Westgate Resorts , a real estate company and timeshare company Westgate Department Stores , the department store division of Anglia Regional Co-operative Society in the United Kingdom Events [ edit ] Westgate shopping mall shooting , a 2013 attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya Places [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] Westgate, County Durham ,
86-527: A 90,000 square foot mansion, Versailles house , modeled after the famous French original. In the film, David Siegel is shown struggling (and ultimately failing) to secure funding for Westgate's Las Vegas high-rise resort, the PH Towers Westgate . Siegel's son and senior Westgate executive, Richard, is quoted as saying that David Siegel's determination not to lose the PH Tower was a major source of
129-529: A cargo ship of the US Navy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Westgate . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westgate&oldid=1257588013 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
172-404: A controversial option. An additional year's funding was made available to give time to examine alternative operating models, and in 2011 the museum was reopened by Charles Lambie, the chairman of the trustees of Canterbury Archaeological Trust , who intended to build an extension to the building focusing on the penal history of Westgate. Lambie died in 2012, having invested £1 million in
215-415: A jailer's house was built on the north side, and this became the headquarters of Canterbury City Police . It is now a bar and cafe, whose dining room is still known as "The Parade Room", with a police truncheon used as its badge. The disused iron bridge which connects the Westgate with the bar and cafe dates from this time. Contemporary with this work was the building of St Peter's Place on the south side of
258-411: A large room with fireplace and, originally, the portcullis mechanism over the vaulted entranceway. This room had doors to the upper room of each tower, each with fireplace and three gunloops, and a northern door to a spiral staircase leading to the roof. Repairs were carried out due to an invasion scare during the 1470s and 1480s. In 1491 or 1492 a large, two-light, transomed , perpendicular east window
301-613: A medieval gatehouse in the Canterbury ward of Westgate West Gate, Ipswich , Suffolk Westgate, Winchester , a medieval fortified gateway in Winchester, Hampshire Shopping centres [ edit ] Westgate Center , San Jose, California Westgate Mall (disambiguation) , various shopping centers around the world Westgate, Nairobi , Kenya, a shopping mall in the Westlands division of Nairobi Westgate Oxford ,
344-606: A neighborhood in Austin, Texas West Gate, Prince William County, Virginia Westgate, Florida Westgate Entertainment District , Glendale, Arizona Other countries [ edit ] Westgate, Calgary , a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Westgate, Manitoba , Canada Westgate, New Zealand , a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand Westgate, NSW is the western approach to Sydney, NSW, Australia Westgate, Queensland , Australia Westgate, Mitchells Plain ,
387-641: A neighbourhood in Cape Town, South Africa Schools [ edit ] Westgate Collegiate & Vocational Institute , a high school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada Westgate Mennonite Collegiate , a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada The Westgate School, Slough , Berkshire, UK The Westgate School, Winchester , Hampshire, UK Structures [ edit ] Historic city gates [ edit ] Westgate, Canterbury , England,
430-539: A shopping centre in Oxford, England Westgate, Singapore Other structures [ edit ] Westgate Las Vegas , Nevada, a casino hotel Westgate Hotel , in Newport, United Kingdom West Gate Bridge , Melbourne, Australia West Gate Freeway , Melbourne, Australia Wakefield Westgate railway station , England Westgate Tower , Austin, Texas Other uses [ edit ] Westgate (surname) ,
473-673: A surname Westgate (album) , a 2007 album by Mark Seymour Westgate (Metro Transit station) , a planned light rail stop along the Central Corridor line in Saint Paul, Minnesota Westgate (Pacific Electric) , a suburban line operated by the Pacific Electric Railway from 1911 to 1940 Westgate FC , an association football club based in Melbourne, Australia USS West Gate (ID-3216) ,
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#1732772111160516-784: A village Westgate, Gloucester , an area of the city Westgate, Lincolnshire , a hamlet Westgate, Newcastle upon Tyne , a former electoral ward Westgate, Norfolk , a location Westgate-on-Sea , Kent, a town Westgate (Wakefield) , a street in West Yorkshire United States [ edit ] Westgate, Alaska , see List of places in Alaska (W) Westgate, Baltimore , Maryland Westgate, Georgia , see List of places in Georgia (U.S. state) (S–Z) Westgate, Iowa Westgate, Los Angeles Westgate, Columbus, Ohio Westgate, Austin, Texas ,
559-511: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Westgate Resorts The company first expanded from Central Florida to Miami and Daytona Beach . As of July 2021, Westgate Resorts has 22 locations across the United States . Founded in 1982, Westgate Resorts operates as a subsidiary of Central Florida Investments, Inc. (CFI), which employs over 10,000 people and has evolved into
602-497: Is protected under UK law as a Grade I listed building , and a trial to ban road traffic from passing through the gate was undertaken in 2012. The gatehouse is expensively faced in coursed ashlar of Kentish ragstone . It has battered plinths to the drum towers, battlements , machicolations and eighteen gunloops : a high number for a gateway, and among the earliest gunholes in Britain. The gunloops would have been added by
645-541: Is the last survivor of Canterbury's seven medieval gates, still well-preserved and one of the city's most distinctive landmarks. The road still passes between its drum towers. This scheduled monument and Grade I listed building houses the West Gate Towers Museum as well as a series of historically themed escape rooms . Canterbury was walled by the Romans around 300 AD . This has been consistently
688-580: The French. In 1453 Henry VI permitted the Mayor and Commonality to keep a jail at the Westgate, so the building was Canterbury's prison from the 15th to the 19th century, while Canterbury Castle was the county jail. In January 1648, after the Christmas Day riot , Parliamentarians burnt down all the wooden doors of the city's gates. They were all replaced in 1660, but these replacements were removed at
731-646: The Middle District of Florida . The jury awarded $ 5,378,863.14 but the judge reduced the award to $ 610,469.84: $ 103,622.09 in compensatory damages and $ 506,847.75 in punitive damages. This award arose from Myers's claim of battery under state law, but her claims of sexual harassment were found to be time-barred . In January 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dismissed an appeal and cross-appeal, affirming
774-566: The Orlando Sentinel, many of those included in these new lawsuits feel that these new legal actions are "...retaliation for the award granted to the defendant in a class action lawsuit," and one of the lawyers representing the former Westgate employees is quoted as saying that the action is "unconscionable". On January 20, 2009, Westgate Resorts Ltd. was found guilty and had to settle with the US Government for its violations of
817-620: The Peasants' Revolt or because it was built later. In 1793−1794 the hall over the gate was split into three and the present square lantern added to the roof, along with the wooden doors and cell linings which are visible today; the cost was £400. These are 17 six-foot, painted, plaster-cast maquettes for the sixteen bronze barons and two bishops which today stand in the Lords Chamber at Westminster Palace , cast in 1847−1851. These were made by various named sculptors, and represent
860-646: The Telemarketing Sales Rule ("Rule"), 16 C.F.R. Part 310, including the National Do Not Call Registry provisions. As part of its settlement with the US Government, it had to pay a $ 900,000 fine. In 2004, Central Florida Investments and David Siegel were sued by former Westgate employee Dawn Myers. In 2008, they were found liable for battery after a trial in the United States District Court for
903-531: The Westgate, along with passages around the Westgate and a new road across the Stour , to cope with increased traffic. At the end of the 19th century the Westgate was used as a temporary repository for the city archives , and a museum was opened in the gatehouse in 1906. In 2009–10, Canterbury City Council considered closing the museum, now called the Westgate Towers Museum, which proved to be
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#1732772111160946-432: The beginning of the fifteenth century. It had a drawbridge over the Stour , a portcullis and wooden doors. The gateway has three floors. The ground floor was designed so that the gateway and vaulted passage had entrances to the towers on each side. Each tower had a ground-floor room with fireplace and four gunloops. The north tower's ground-floor room had a spiral staircase to upper floors. The first floor contains
989-716: The building was flooded. Most of them are still there. As of May 2011, ten of the maquettes in the basement had been photographed; the fate of the remaining five was unknown. The sculptors of the maquettes are as follows: John Thomas who made the maquette of Stephen Langton , as of 2013 in Canterbury Heritage Museum and as of 2021 in The Beaney ; Patrick MacDowell ; Henry Timbrell; James Sherwood Westmacott; J. Thorneycroft (possibly Thomas Thornycroft ); Frederick Thrupp ; Alexander Handyside Ritchie; and William Frederick Woodington . As of 2021, three of
1032-476: The company's financial troubles in 2009-11. On November 22, 2011, a controlling interest in the property was sold to Resort Finance America LLC. Westgate Resorts was sued in a federal court in Las Vegas for failure to pay bills relating to the pH Towers and building work allegedly carried out to a poor standard. On February 27, 2013, Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ordered Westgate Resorts to pay
1075-458: The condemned cell with the portcullis now laid on top. Until 1775 there was a grated cage in the prison gateway, where certain prisoners were allowed to beg for alms and speak with passers by. Capital punishment was normally the gallows, plus the stake at Wincheap for religious martyrs in the time of Queen Mary . In the 19th century, the city walls that joined the gateway to the back of the drum towers were removed. Following this, in 1823–1829,
1118-684: The district court's verdict. On January 10, 2012, David Siegel and Westgate Resorts, Ltd filed a lawsuit in Florida against the Sundance Institute and the filmmakers of The Queen of Versailles , claiming that Sundance's published film description was defamatory. On January 23, 2013, the United States District Court Judge Conway of the Middle District of Florida, ordered a stay of the lawsuit pending arbitration. In her order, Judge Conway called
1161-546: The documentary The Queen of Versailles as to possibly illegal activities in Florida during the 2000 United States elections , which he claims were singularly responsible for getting George W. Bush into the White House . Interviewer: "How were you personally responsible for the re-election [ sic ] of George Bush?" Siegel: "I'd rather not say because it may not necessarily have been legal." (9 minutes 20 seconds into
1204-493: The documentary). In an August 2012 interview with Bloomberg Businessweek , Siegel elaborated on his claims: Whenever I saw a negative article about [Al] Gore, I put it in with the paychecks of my 8,000 employees. I had my managers do a survey on every employee. If they liked Bush, we made them register to vote. But not if they liked Gore. The week before [the election] we made 80,000 phone calls through my call center—they were robo-calls. On Election Day, we made sure everyone who
1247-402: The end of the eighteenth century. They were similar to the surviving wooden Christ Church gates at the cathedral. After repairs to the Westgate and jail in 1667, a pound was built on the north side for the hail; this is now gone, but Pound Lane remains. The guard rooms, heavily wood-lined in the eighteenth century, became cells for both debtors and criminals, and the room over the arch became
1290-532: The filmmakers. The arbitrator wrote in the award, "Having viewed the supposedly egregious portions of the Motion Picture numerous times, [the Arbitrator] simply does not find that any of the content of the Motion Picture was false." The arbitrator also wrote that Westgate had failed to show how it was damaged from the documentary. Finally, the arbitrator wrote that Westgate "did not remotely establish
1333-479: The former Hilton New York Grand Central, a 23-floor, 300-room, two-tower hotel located in the historic Tudor City neighborhood within Midtown Manhattan's East Side that has been rebranded Westgate New York City. In 2012, filmmaker Lauren Greenfield released a documentary entitled The Queen of Versailles , based on a series of interviews with Siegel, his wife Jackie Siegel , and their attempt to build
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1376-457: The gate was rebuilt by Archbishop Simon Sudbury before he died in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. It has been suggested that it was built primarily as an entrance for pilgrims visiting the shrine of St Thomas Becket at the cathedral . However the rebuild as a defensive status symbol was paid for partly by Sudbury and partly by taxation for military protection against expected raids by
1419-854: The largest privately held corporation in the Central Florida area. Siegel opened CFI, a real estate development firm, with an office located in his family garage in 1970. The Westgate family of resorts was born in 1982 with the opening of a 16-unit resort at Westgate Vacation Villas. Westgate Lakes Resort & Spa opened in 1996, followed by Westgate Towers in 1997; Westgate Town Center and Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort & Spa in 1999; Westgate Flamingo Bay in 2001; Westgate Blue Tree Resort, Westgate Park City Resort & Spa and Westgate River Ranch in 2002; and Westgate Palace and Westgate Historic Williamsburg in 2003. Westgate Resorts now encompasses more than 13,500 villas at 22 full-service resorts. Siegel
1462-447: The matter went back to the courts for another three years. The matter was finally settled under Judge Michael Baxley, and Westgate agreed to pay $ 500,000, $ 100,000 less than the original judgement required. In January 2014, Westgate Resorts filed dozens of new lawsuits against many of its former employees who were involved with this class action lawsuit, claiming that it deserves to recover previously paid sales commissions. According to
1505-474: The men who signed Magna Carta . Each of the fifteen barons and two bishops is named at the base. In 1908 three of the maquettes were displayed in the museum, and two remained on show at the Westgate in 2013. The rest were put into storage in the ground floor room of the north tower in 1987, along with several other museum exhibits, where they were forgotten until they were rediscovered by museum staff in May 2008, when
1548-707: The most important of the city's gates as it is the London Road entrance and the main entrance from most of Kent. The present towers are a medieval replacement of the Roman west gate, rebuilt around 1380. There was a gate here at the time of the Norman conquest , which is thought to have been Roman. From late Anglo-Saxon times it had the Church of the Holy Cross on top, but both church and gate were dismantled in 1379, and
1591-404: The plaintiff, Tutor-Saliba Corp., $ 9 million in unpaid bills, and awarded $ 2.6m to Westgate for various shoddy building works including a cracked concrete swimming pool. Westgate Resorts was sued by 300 former sales employees in 2010 for unpaid sales commissions. They won the lawsuit and Westgate Resorts were ordered to pay $ 600,000. Despite paying $ 50,000 initially, Westgate stopped payment and
1634-564: The project, causing the closure of the museum and generating fresh questions about the building's future. In 2014, the council agreed to assign the lease to the One Pound Lane company, who stated that they intended to reopen the existing museum and develop a restaurant and bar in the premises. The Westgate reopened to the public on 3 August 2015. In the 21st century, Westgate is the largest surviving city gate in England. The gateway
1677-557: The testimony previously offered by Mr. Siegel during court hearings, "inconsistent and incredible and thus lacking weight". The matter was subsequently heard before an arbitrator for the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) in June 2013. On March 13, 2014, the arbitrator awarded in favor of the filmmakers, Lauren Greenfield and Frank Evers , including an order that David Siegel and Westgate Resort pay $ 750,000 to
1720-448: The type of malice required for a defamation claim on behalf of a public figure." CEO David Siegel, a Republican, sent an email in the fall of 2012 to all of his employees suggesting that he might "reduce the size of this company" if Obama were to win the 2012 presidential election . The email was widely interpreted by the media as a threat to the employees about possible layoffs if Barack Obama were to be re-elected. Siegel admitted in
1763-444: Was added to the large first-floor room, with a view towards the cathedral and along St Peter's Street. The roof over the large first-floor central room has a battlemented parapet walk, originally with access to the tops of both towers and machicolations, as well as to the two low chambers, each with two gunports, in the tops of both towers. This part of the tower was less well-built than the lower storeys, either due to haste during
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1806-619: Was recognized as a CEO of the Year honoree by the Orlando Business Journal in 2014. In 2016 Westgate Smoky Mountain Resort suffered extensive damage from a fire, rebuilding is said to have begun quickly. In May 2018, musician Barry Manilow returned to Las Vegas as the exclusive headliner at the Westgate International Theater at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. In June 2018, Westgate acquired
1849-530: Was voting for Bush got to the polls. I didn't know he would win by 527 votes. Afterward, we did a survey among the employees to find out who voted who wouldn't have otherwise. One thousand of them said so. Westgate, Canterbury The Westgate is a medieval gatehouse in Canterbury , Kent , England. This 60-foot (18 m) high western gate of the city wall is the largest surviving city gate in England. Built of Kentish ragstone around 1379, it
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