Word: lake
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Maine's Moosehead Lake-frigid in winter, plagued by black flies in summer-300 ft. of water frontage is selling for $30,000, or double the price of two years...
Affluence will also increase land demand for airports, marinas, ski lodges and especially vacation and retirement homes. Apartment dwellers no longer are content with a rented room by the seashore on their holidays; more and more yearn for their own cabin on Mosquito Lake. Older people who once took it for granted that they would move in with reluctant sons and daughters after retirement now count on relaxing in some sunny clime on the beaches and golf courses of Senior Citizen Acres. "Even if we attain zero population growth, we will continue to spread out across our open land like...
...home communities from Quechee Vt. to Sun City, Ariz. Second homes will account for 300,000 of this year's 2.1 million housing starts. Large land corporations have sprung up to meet the demand. Typically they buy a huge plot, bulldoze a few roads, dig out an artificial lake or build a golf course, and sell lots to the public...
...Lake Havasu City, Ariz., is famed as the new home of the London Bridge, which now spans a canal connected to a lake made by damming the Colorado River. The development by McCulloch Properties covers 16,640 acres of gravelly desert 200 miles northwest of Phoenix. Lots and gently curving streets are well laid out, but the development could become a jumble of clashing architectural styles because McCulloch will let a lot buyer put up any kind of house-Cape Cod, Spanish pueblo, Swiss chalet...
Boston, downtown $60-$70 per sq. ft. Atlanta, Peachtree Center $200 per sq. ft. Honolulu, downtown $60-$70 per sq. ft. Manhattan, midtown $200 per sq. ft. Miami Beach area, zoned for high rises $450,000 per acre* Madison, Wis. on Lake Mendota $28,500 for 85 front feet Minneapolis, southern suburbs $11,000-$13,000 per ½ acre Kansas City, raw land in Platt County, north of Kansas City $1,500-$2,500 per acre Providence, R.I., suburb of Glocester $2,500-$4000 per acre Dallas-Fort Worth Airport vicinity $25,000 per acre Houston, raw industrial land...