In 1997, Prime Minister Alain Juppé initiated the Mattéoli Commission, headed by Jean Mattéoli, to investigate the matter and according to the government, the Louvre is in charge of 678 pieces of still unclaimed artworks by their rightful owners.

The city was also home to the Opryland USA theme park, which operated from 1972 to 1997 before being closed by its owners ( Gaylord Entertainment Company ) and soon after demolished to make room for the Opry Mills mega-shopping mall.

The merged firm never managed to find an effective response to Java as to market positioning, and by 1997 its owners were looking to sell the business.

In the 45 year history there have been only four different owners of the track, the Williams Family from 1965 thru 1997.

Super Bowl XXXVII was originally awarded to San Francisco in 1997 by the NFL owners.

MGM and Danjaq, LLC, owners of the franchise, sued Sony Pictures in 1997, with the legal dispute ending two years later in an out-of-court settlement.

Although fears that the media in Hong Kong would lose their independence after 1997 have not yet to realize, worries that the business ties between Beijing and the media owners may affect the editorially-dynamic media have not been borne out.

Before switching to internet scoring in 1997, the team owners were required to send in weekly line-ups via postcard to both the commissioner and opponents.

Former owners of the Seattle Weekly include Sasquatch Publishing / Quickfish Media, Seattle from 1976 to 1997 ; Stern Publishing, New York from 1997 – 2000 ; and Village Voice Media, New York from 2000 to the present.

CBS Radio, Inc., formerly known as Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, is one of the largest owners and operators of radio stations in the United States, third behind main rival Clear Channel Communications ( which owns many of the stations that were previously owned by former CBS parent Viacom before 1997 ) and Cumulus Media.

Attorney Anne Kajir uncovered evidence of widespread corruption and complicity in the Papua New Guinea government that allowed rampant, illegal logging that is destroying the largest remaining intact block of tropical forest in the Asia Pacific region In 1997, her first year practicing law, Kajir successfully defended a precedent-setting appeal in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea that forced the logging interests to pay damages to indigenous land owners.

Despite the fact that the team played in a state-of-the-art stadium that was built in 1997 and used during spring training by the Atlanta Braves, attendance did not meet expectations ; after trailing the Southern League in attendance in multiple years, the Rays ' owners announced the team would move to Montgomery in 2004 ( terminating their 10-year lease with Disney after four seasons ).

KCPQ came in danger of losing its Fox affiliation in 1997, when Fox announced a deal to acquire then-UPN affiliate KIRO-TV from Belo Corporation ( the current owners of NBC affiliate KING-TV, whose acquisition necessitated KIRO's sale ) to make KIRO the market's Fox station.

Martin Kruze was the first victim to come forward — contacting the new owners of Maple Leaf Gardens in 1993, and going public in February 1997.

In 1997, local residents of Irish ancestry and business owners, including Peter Coleman, gathered resources and encouraged the city to demolish an old commercial building, to build a small park and erect the Tipperary Hill Heritage Memorial.

For the 1997 season, the new owners invested upward of $ 20 million on general improvements and several new attractions.

The town was effectively closed in 1997 when the railways were privatised and the new owners did not need a support town there, although the diesel refuelling facilities remain, and there is overnight accommodation for train drivers.

Holaw ( 420 ) Ltd., the present owners, bought the estate in 1997.

Since the foundation in 1997, till the sale to Kush Games ( a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive ) ten years later, its owners and key managers were founders Petr Vochozka and Jan Kudera.

When Tip was taken over in 1997 the new owners didn't want the show, but fortunately for von Hardenberg, the ORB was interested in the format, and so it was taken on under the new title Polylux.

Exhibited at Salon des Indépendants, 1911, Salon des Indépendants, Bruxelles, 1911, Galeria J. Dalmau, Barcelona, 1912, Galerie La Boétie, Salon de La Section d ' Or, 1912, stolen by Nazi occupiers from the home of collector Alphonse Kann during World War Two, returned to its rightful owners in 1997

The once largest owners ' corporation with legal status in Hong Kong, The Incorporated Owners of Mei Foo Sun Chuen – Stage I, was formed in 1997.

Homestead-Miami Speedway was built in 1995 by Ralph Sanchez and Wayne Huizenga and in 1997 ISC and Penske Motorsports ( owned by motorsports magnate Roger Penske ) partnered with the track's owners.

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library ( the British Library ) moved to a new building at St Pancras.

Thus, according to the Bank of England's Boxall and Gallagher ( 1997 ), "... there was virtually no difference between banks and building society ' listed ' interest rates for home finance mortgage lending between 1984 and 1997.

" I was such an efficiency expert that the first morning on the job, I couldn't find the building where I was to report for work ", he said in 1997.

In 1997 Toronto-based TrizecHahn Corporation ( the owner at the time of the CN Tower ) purchased the building for $ 110 million, and assumption of $ 4 million in liabilities, and a $ 734 million mortgage.

The most well-known building on campus is the Chapel of St. Ignatius, designed by New York architect Steven Holl, born in Bremerton, Washington: the 1997 building won a national Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1998.

* National City ( Kalamazoo was formerly the corporate HQ of First of America Bank, which merged with National City Bank in 1997 ), National City has since been purchased and merged with PNC Bank which still maintains a large corporate building in Texas Township, and several downtown along with branches in the region.

In 1997 – 8, the building was restored to its original exterior design, and can be found at 211 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

The last university building in the historic centre of Delft was the university library, which was relocated to a new building in 1997.

Grovetown city officials were in the process of building a new City hall in 1997.

After a flood in 1997, Utica saw growth because it had to strengthen its building, planning, and zoning laws in order to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) and Indiana DNR rebuilding funds.

Interiors with furniture were completed on 1 January 1996, the spires of Tower 1 and Tower 2 were completed on 1 March 1996, and the first batch of ' PETRONAS ’ personnel moved into the building on 1 January 1997.

As noted in the housing chapter an ordinance was adopted on June 23, 1997, requiring the filing of a plan for building.

The elementary building serves PreK-6 students and was built in 1978 ; the adjacent high school houses students in grades 7-12 and was constructed in 1998 following the devastating 1997 Red River Flood, which destroyed the former 1953 building on Ada's east side.

Started out of the Sellersville basement of the owner, Greg Bencsik, Bux-Mont Awards moved into the building at 201 North Main Street owned by the Odd Fellows in 1997, and marked its 15th year in business by opening a second store and expanding its web presence.

As of 1997, the original laboratory building remains, more or less intact, as does the old dormitory / cafeteria / lounge building, which is now used for storage.

On 22 April 1997, a team of military commandos, codenamed " Chavín de Huantar ", raided the building.

Developments at the end of the 20th century included the 1997 extension of the visitor centre, which included building a cafe, and the erection of Fen Hide in 1999, together with a boardwalk path to the hide, and a dragonfly pond.

Also, an elevator tower was discreetly added during the 1997 building renovation project that both refurbished and made the building accessible to the handicapped .< ref >" About the Library.