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That is a rather unusual creed for a real estate developer. Butter-pecan houses? But Emil Hanslin, a weather-beaten, chain-smoking dynamo of 52, is an unusual developer. An early proponent of cluster housing, he is now experimenting with a new way to preserve open space. Says he: "It...
One of the refugees is Narayan Mahadev Thanage, 30, who lives with his wife and daughter in one of the jhuggis adjacent to the new Bombay slaughterhouse. He was forced to leave his five-acre farm in Ahmednagar District 125 miles from Bombay, one of the areas worst affected by...
To raise more capital, the partners approached 20 wealthy people, asking for investments of $5,000 each. John Murchison signed up, and others quickly followed. With their money as a base, Seibert then sold limited partnerships for $10,000 each to another 100 people. Each of the initial investors got...
There was a brisk demand for land, condominiums and store space. Vail Associates limited businesses to a few of each kind and imposed architectural controls on builders. Sensitive to the ecology, the company helped form a sanitation district and took other environmental-protection steps that have since won praise from...
If the itch to travel can be summarily scratched, the hunger for acquisition is not so easily appeased. No need to parody the King Ranch; the cynic can start small. A shrewd shopper may buy an entire ten-acre island in Deerskin Lake, Wis., for $115,000. For a bit...