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Dates: during 1946-1946
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This shopper's how-to-buy dream is also the latest how-to-sell dream of big, balding William Zeckendorf, 41, up & coming executive vice president of the up & coming New York City real estate firm of Webb & Knapp, Inc. What made it more than a dream was that by last week bustling Bill Zeckendorf was almost ready to make it come true. He had: 1) 90% of the necessary property (in the heart of Flushing, near the site of the last World's Fair), 2) the financial backing of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 3) the unofficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Lemons to Grapefruit | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Percentage. An old hand at the tricky process of bringing buyers, sellers, property, and capital together, Zeckendorf spent five years getting his $50,000,000 project under way. Toughest job was getting control of the property, which he began to buy piecemeal soon after he got the idea. To get the holdout 10% he will either have to pay a fancy high price or get help from the city through condemnation proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Lemons to Grapefruit | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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