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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's a very simple thing but a big idea. The buyer buys the whole acre, but he gives up part of his land to the community. That makes him feel like the Rockefellers, creating a system of space that he can enjoy and others can enjoy...
...resolve their almost contradictory requirements. They wanted Eastman to be a high-quality development that also would include some low-priced housing while conserving as much land as possible-and all to be sold at a profit. If anyone could deliver that, they decided, it would be Emil Hanslin...
...Pride. Hanslin was born a builder. His grandfather was a Swiss-German carpenter; his father headed a construction firm, as did two uncles. Indeed, the competing family firms built up miles of land in and around St. Louis during the 1920s and 1930s-with young Emil digging and hammering as a laborer for both of them. He launched a career as a theatrical director, but one night he heard his father and an uncle debating about who had built better houses. "At first I thought it was damn funny, but then I began getting the message. These guys arguing over...