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Jeff Hines: Filling His Father's Shoes
Nov 1, 2007
Over the last 50 years, Houston-based Hines has developed some of the world's most striking buildings, including the trapezoidal Pennzoil Place in Houston...
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CEO Leads Majestic to Industrial Peak
Oct 1, 2007
There never was really any question that Ed Roski Jr., was going to get into real estate. As a young boy, he tagged along while his father toured industrial...
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Boston's Historic Ames Building Will Become Boutique Hotel
Jul 1, 2007
When it was constructed in 1889, the 13-story Ames Building was the first skyscraper in Boston. The wealthy Ames family owned the hugely successful agricultural tool business, Ames Plow, launched in the late 1770s. Ames Plow picked a pinnacle point in downtown Boston on which to construct its corporate home, One Court Street, just off Washington Mall. Now the unique building may be transformed into a boutique hotel....
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From Lumberer to Developer, Forest City's Roots Run Deep
Jun 1, 2007
When it began as a lumber business in the 1920s, Forest City Enterprises Inc. focused more on sticks than bricks. It was formed in Cleveland by four siblings of the Ratowczwer family, which took on the surname of Ratner after immigrating to America from Poland....
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St. Louis Preserves Historic Hotel
Mar 1, 2007
With an infusion of capital from a new owner, the historic Chase Park Plaza hotel in St. Louis is kicking off a $95 million renovation that will transform its adjacent Park Plaza residential tower into additional hotel rooms, corporate apartments and high-end condominiums....
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Philadelphia Renaissance
Feb 1, 2007
Last August, J. Grasso Properties paid $94 million for the Curtis Center, a historic office building in the heart of Philadelphia. ...
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Playing to Win: Roger Staubach
Jan 1, 2007
Just a few years into his NFL career, Roger Staubach was already thinking about life after football. The salaries of professional athletes in the 1970s weren't what they are today, and the Dallas Cowboys quarterback was married with three kids....
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Her Father's Daughter: Lucy Crow Billingsley
Dec 1, 2006
Growing up as the only daughter of legendary Dallas developer Trammell Crow, Lucy Crow Billingsley was raised in the finest Southern belle tradition.By the time she got to college, the debutante couldn't wait to rip off the long white gloves...
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Regal Restoration
Nov 1, 2006
The regal Dexter Horton building was built in 1924 to pay tribute to one of Seattle's founding fathers and later house his noteworthy banking company, SeaFirst...
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