Word: parcelling
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...plan does have a certain breathtaking screwball grandeur, like some '30s movie written by Bertolt Brecht and directed by Preston Sturges. Donald Trump, the young multimillionaire real estate developer, owns 100 vacant acres of Hudson River waterfront just northwest of midtown Manhattan, a parcel that he characteristically calls "the greatest piece of urban land in America--the greatest piece of land in the world." One hundred acres! In one spot in Manhattan! At the center of that plot, the developer announced last week, he intends to put up the world's tallest building, an office and apartment tower shooting...
...administer the Patriarchate until elections for a new Orthodox prelate are held. Even if Eirinaios fights to keep his job, the embattled Patriarch is likely to remain under pressure from his own congregation. Israeli security officials tell Time there is another secret Jerusalem land deal in progress for a parcel of land - also owned by the Church - next to the famous King David Hotel overlooking the walls of the Old City. Deals like that will only fuel distrust between the Church's Greek priesthood and its Palestinian lay members...
...Force. That meant living in military housing or renting or owning small homes nearby. After Phillip retired as a colonel in 2000, the empty nesters decided it was finally time to have the home they really wanted. When Phillip's new employer at the time--United Parcel Service--moved him to Louisville, the couple found a nine-month-old one-story house that had all the features and charm they had ever wanted. It was located in an upscale suburban neighborhood that was the perfect place for them to settle down in and spend their golden years...
Eric W. Hutchins, chairman of the Rowe Parcel Committee in Rockport, oversaw the management of a small field of eight acres the town bought for watershed purposes and as an open space for recreation. Hutchins said he noticed during the winter of 2003 that the manure pile kept on the field was being gradually depleted and is now nearly gone...
...appeal represents another bump in the road in Harvard’s lengthy quest to develop its choice parcel of riverfront land...