Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observed that scheme after scheme to beautify America's topsy-built cities failed because the true client was the real estate entrepreneur rather than the aesthetician. Pei signed on with Manhattan Realtor William Zeckendorf to see if a creative balance could be struck between big deals and good design. The working relationship produced Manhattan's Kips Bay Plaza apartments, Montreal's Place Ville Marie and Denver's Mile High Center. But a decade ago, Pei decided it was time to begin striking out on his own: he became a U.S. citizen...
...months ago, when the city of St. Petersburg, Fla. (pop. 200,000), lopped off every one of its 4,1 86 curbside parking meters. Letters poured in from cities as far away as Britain, asking about the feasibility of this unprecedented backtracking-the result of a determined campaign by Realtor Richard D. Tourtelot, who managed to convince St. Petersburg officials that the meters were the major factor in the blight that had fallen on the city's downtown area. Downtown doldrums are getting to be pandemic, and if meter removal was a solution, other cities wanted to know about...
Over and above the economics of it is the fun. Those areas under the stairs that are so fine for hiding, the odd, unexpected rooms, the high ceilings-the wasted space, in short, which is so far from wasted. Says a Boston realtor who lives in a 74-year-old 15-roomer himself: "Of course, the basic appeal is a lot more room for less money. But beyond that-they're nicer, they're warmer, they're grander. You have the feeling that you're living in a real house...
...largest U.S. motel chain, Holiday Inns of America (442 inns), which last week announced that it will add 17 new motels in Canada to the 202 others it already has in the works. Driving twelve years ago with his wife and four of his five children, Memphis Realtor Kemmons Wilson was shocked to discover that motels charged $2 a night for each child. He decided to open a motel in which parents could enjoy some luxury at moderate prices and have their children put up free. The idea caught on-not only with families but with traveling businessmen and eager...
...University's proposal was almost $1 million under the $6,525,000 offer made by Boston realtor Samuel P. Coffman, but though final bids were opened in April the MTA Board of Trustees has so far refused to accept any of them. Difficulty in relocating the switching and storing facilities could delay the sale of the yards indefinately...