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Allen AllensworthIn 1914, the California Eagle reported that the Allensworth community consisted of of deeded land worth more than US$ 112,500.
Joseph Gibbons (Florida politician)In 2012, following the reconfiguration of the districts, Gibbons was redrawn into the 100th District, which included his home in Hallandale Beach and stretched from Fort Lauderdale in Broward to Indian Creek.
Mark Maryboy In 2002 he and the Utah Navajo Commission urged the Navajo Nation to reassert Colorado River water claims the tribe waived in the late 1960s to help facilitate a power plant near Page, Arizona.
Henry Kinney In 1854, largely financed by New York backers, Kinney purchased millions of acres of land in Nicaragua under dubious legal circumstances, with the intent to start a colony.
Ellen WillmottWarley Place was sold to pay her debts and the house was demolished in 1939, although plans to develop a housing estate on the site were rejected.
Francis C. Thompson 200px | right | thumb | Part of the shoreline of Poverty Point Reservoir, a large lake near Delhi, Louisiana | Delhi, -LSB- -LSB- Louisiana -RSB- -RSB- During his long legislative career, Thompson worked successfully to procure state funding for Poverty Point Reservoir, an attractive lake just north of Delhi that was completed in 2001.
Mickey DuffyDuffy earned such great profits from both beer and numbers businesses that by 1930 he had built a mansion for himself and his wife Edith in Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania.
Surayud ChulanontIn February 2010 after demonstrations by the'' Red Shirts'' at Khao Yaithiang Mountain, Surayud returned the land to the Royal Forestry Department, without any removals of structures or plants, weeks before a formal notice from the department was issued.
John Wolfe AmbroseIn 1898, after improving the inner harbor, Ambrose began urging the House of Representatives' Rivers and Harbors Committee for money to build an adequate channel starting at Sandy Hook, New Jersey and leading into the New York Harbor.
James Rouse In 1958, Rouse built Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie, Maryland, the first enclosed shopping center east of the Mississippi River and the first built by a real estate developer.
Phil CostaDespite being the Minister for Regional Development at the time, in 2008 Costa disavowed knowledge or responsibility for a Labor government project that would have seen a new commuter car park in his electorate built next to existing family homes as a replacement for a car park facing the Macarthur train station.
Hannibal Kimball In 1884, Kimball secured funding to purchase of land fronted on West Peachtree Street and running west along North Avenue to construct roads and housing.
Lyda HillShe developed and constructed the Garden of the Gods Visitor and Nature Center in Colorado Springs in 1995 - designed to be free to the public while generating revenue through its retail operation to assist in maintaining Garden of the Gods Park.
Donald TrumpIn April 2011, it was reported that Trump was in the process of negotiating a deal with New York City to reopen the historic Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park.
Bruce Allan Clark (lawyer)He was personally involved in the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Standoff, an occupation of a sundance ceremony site on land claimed by the Cariboo Tribal Council, the Alkali Lake band, and the Shuswap (Secwepemc) Nation in addition to a private title holder Lyle James and the non-native governments of both British Columbia and Canada as to different aspects.
Compton I. WhiteThe Silver Purchase Act of 1934 was a major win for White and the silver mining industry in Idaho, Montana, and Colorado, as the federal government had purchased silver at prices well above market value, which enabled mine operators to remain in business during the Great Depression.
Jack MacDonald (Hamilton politician)In 1980, he supported plans by the Hamilton Harbour commissioners to build for an industrial area on the city's Beach Strip.
William EsserIn 1949, he moved further south to Lake Worth, Florida, where he opened Esser's Ranch on a 10-acre parcel of land including 5 acres of mango trees, a tropical fruit garden, large solariums for sun bathing and room to house 20-40 patients per night.
Tom Leppert In December 2008, Leppert began lobbying the Obama administration for $ 386 million in Community Development Block Grant funds to be awarded by the federal government for the purpose of building a new convention center hotel in downtown Dallas (a project that had been on Dallas' drawing board for nearly two decades), stating :'' Let's use this as an opportunity.
George C. Gregory The land surrounding the Gregory family estate, Granite Hall, became the site of a golf course of the Bon Air Country Club after World War II, and a subdivision beginning in 1958.
Robert L. BurnsIn January 1930, Burns and seven other council members who had voted in favor of granting a rock-crushing permit in the Santa Monica Mountains were unsuccessfully targeted for recall on the grounds that the eight'' have conspired with Alphonzo Bell, Samuel Traylor and Chapin A. Day, all multi-millionaires, to grant this group a special spot zoning permit to crush and ship from the high-class residential section of Santa Monica, limestone and rock for cement.''
Pehr August PetersonP. A. never drove a car, so this location was ideal for walking : halfway between the heart of Rockford's Swedish-American commercial center, farther north up Seventh Street, and the east-west line of factories (and railroad tracks) stretching across the south end of the East Side, fronting along 18th Ave. In 1918 Peterson purchased the Lake-Peterson House, as it is now known, as a private residence.
Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier In 1888 Olivier wrote the seventh Fabian tract, Capital and Land, in which criticised'' Georgism'' (a system, popular with some Radicals and Christian Socialists, in which land continued to be privately owned and managed but should be taxed for the benefit of the community) and instead advocated the communal ownership and control of land.
Cactus Pete PiersantiOriginally a gas station with slot machines, by 1958 Cactus Pete's was so successful a 15-room hotel and aircraft runway were built to accommodate the growing numbers of visitors, mainly from nearby Idaho.
Tom PetwayIn 1988, while acquiring the franchise for Prudential Network Realty in Duval, Clay and St. Johns counties, Linda Sherrer approached Petway for financial backing and business advice, which he provided.
Audu BakoHis Tomas Danbatta Water Supply Scheme was later abandoned, only to be rehabilitated in 2008 and used to provide drinking water to communities in Dambatta, Makoda and Minjibir local government areas.
Peter GarrettIn December 2009 Garrett rejected the proposal to impound the Mary River through the construction of the Traveston Crossing Dam.
Pedro Nava (politician)He introduced a measure that would give mobile home park residents input and require any park owner wanting to convert a mobile home park into condominiums to include the residents in the process (2010).
Harry Oakes After the disastrous Florida Hurricane of 1928 and the Great Depression, Oakes bought of partially developed land in northern Palm Beach County, Florida, from Harry Seymour Kelsey, who lacked the finances to rebuild his shattered development.
Charles W. Morse Along with Augustus Heinze's brothers, Morse helped create a pool of money to drive up and corner the stock of United Copper.
Peter H. ThomasIn 2000, Thomas moved to Scottsdale, Arizona and led the development of the Four Seasons Resort and Hotel, a project which was facilitated through his US Real Estate Company, Thomas Pride International.
Arthur StilwellIn 1887 Stilwell started the Fairmount Cycling Club and built the amusement center Fairmount Park between Kansas City and Independence, ostensibly to boost traffic for one of the trolley lines he owned.
Jack MacDonald (Hamilton politician)He also endorsed a pledge by the federal government to assist in construction of a National Hockey League - sized arena for the city in 1979, and argued that Hamilton deserved a team in the next NHL expansion.
Bill HemmerIn the summer of 2002, Bill reported live from Somerset, Pennsylvania, on the mining accident that trapped nine workers for 77 hours when a wall separating their tunnel from an abandoned, flooded mine gave way, sending millions of gallons of water into their work area.
Wayne N. AspinallThe bill passed in August 1962 when Aspinall attained a plan calling for the construction of a reservoir on the Roaring Fork River near Aspen, which would compensate the Western Slope for its loss of water.
Carl Axel SetterbergWhen he heard that the city of Vaasa had burned down to the ground in 1852, he became interested in the opportunities surrounding the rebuilding of the city.
Majora Carter In 2012, Carter took FreshDirect on as a client for her consulting firm, Majora Carter Group LLC (MCG), to help the company and local organizations connect prior to its proposed relocation to the Harlem River Yards in the South Bronx.
Les AuCoinHe also helped preserve Cascade Head on the Oregon Coast, supported the Columbia Gorge Scenic Protection Act, helped stop the construction of Salt Caves Dam on the last free-flowing stretch of the Klamath River, co-authored the 1988 bill quadrupling the designation of National Wild and Scenic Rivers in Oregon, and fought the construction of a plant at the Umatilla Chemical Depot to incinerate excess chemical weapons.
John A. Poor:'' Resolved, That to his labor, knowledge and foresight, we are indebted for the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railway, now the Grand Trunk, whereby our valuation has nearly quadrupled since 1842, the season of our greatest depression and discouragement ; :'' For the opening of Commercial Street now lined on both sides with large business houses and resulting in the Marginal Way, one hundred feet in width, around our whole city, front and back, and over three miles in length, giving us an uninterrupted water front, worth million to us, in connection with our unrivaled harbor ; :'' For the opening of our Portland Works, where engines and cars of the best workmanship have been built, year after year in large numbers not only for the railroads of Maine, but for other and very distant regions, during the last twenty years ; :'' For the establishment of our Gas Works, after they had come to a full stop ; And for much that has been done first and last for the flourishing Rochester Road, now on its way to New York ; :'' For the original movement, which resulted in the hydrographic survey of our state by that able and conscientious engineer, Walter Wells, whereby our whole country has been brought acquainted with the astonishing accumulation of water power within our territory for manufacturing purposes.
Isaac Newton Van NuysHe founded the community of Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in 1911.
Ed BearssAs popular interest in the Civil War increased with the centennial celebrations starting in 1961, Bearss was recognized as more knowledgeable on the battlefields than virtually anyone else and he was enlisted to develop a variety of new parks, including Pea Ridge and Wilson's Creek.
Laurens van der PostIn 1996 he tried to prevent the eviction of the Bushmen from their homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, which had been set up for that purpose, but ironically it was his work in the 1950s to promote the land for cattle ranching that led to their eventual removal.
B. B. Vincent(See Erie Canal #Enlargements and improvements) He was among those selected by the city council in early 1846 to plant trees in the town square, which was called The Diamond at the time.
Nazeer Ahmed (space scientist)When the Muslims of Tumkur were experiencing hardship in burying their dead due to lack of space in the existing cemetery, Ahmed donated over 6 acres of land in the city in 2008, and designed and constructed an Eidgah, a Muslim prayer structure, on this land, facing Mecca, the direction in which Muslims pray.
Jesse W. FellHolder was a partner in many of Fell's projects... In the summer of 1869 Fell traveled to northwestern Iowa and selected a tract of about forty sections, more than 25,000 acres (100 km2) of land.
Frederick Law OlmstedReferring to Olmsted in March 1893, Burnham said,'' An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes ; with lawns and banks and forest covered hills ; with mountain sides and ocean views.''
Thomas Walter ScottIn late June 1906, his cabinet formally approved the location of the current Legislature, and agreed to develop the area around the Legislature into a public park (Wascana Park), which is today the largest urban park in the world.
Gottlieb BurianIn 1884, Gottlieb Burian found an attractive homestead site on unsettled, forested land on the southeast corner of a lake in Sunnydale, 12 miles south of Seattle.
Saqib AliIn 2005, Ali's political activities expanded when he helped form the'' Longdraft Road Coalition'', an organization opposing the expansion of this'' quiet, residential two-lane road to a bustling four-lane byway.''
Bill BennettOn the other hand, his ostensibly anti- socialist government ironically spent hundreds of millions of dollars to bring the 1986 World Exposition to Vancouver, distributed free shares to British Columbians for the British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation or BCRIC, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars constructing the Coquihalla Highway with the controversial, non-union Kerkhoff Construction Company as the main contractor.
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles) In 1951 Wilson was secretary of an'' engineering corporation'' that was planning the construction of a monorail rapid-transit system between Long Beach and the San Fernando Valley via Downtown and the Los Angeles River.
George E. MerrickHe designed the new town in great detail, featuring wide, tree-lined boulevards, delicate bridges and sedate urban golf course s. Merrick's secret was his passionate devotion to aesthetic s. George Merrick is credited with the establishment of the University of Miami in Coral Gables in 1925 with a donation of of land and a pledge of US$ 5 million.
Gary AubuchonIn 2009, Aubuchon's home construction business was involved in a controversy concerning homes that were built with defective Chinese drywall which rendered the homes unusable because of mold.
Harold KoplarHe established a development at Lake of the Ozarks in 1964 that includes the Lodge of Four Seasons hotel, two golf courses, a marina, and Spa Shiki.
Tom Felton In 2003, Felton and his brother Chris worked with Joe Babbitt, the St. Lawrence County Angler's Association, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 6, the Chamber of Commerce, and a diverse group of other organisations to form the World Junior Carp Tournament, which involves competitive fishing for ages eleven to eighteen in a family-friendly environment.
Jacob Hespeler Beginning on February 6, 1845, Hespeler made a series of purchases of land on the west bank of the Speed River northeast of Preston, near a small settlement called New Hope, further removed from competition with the Erbs.
Lois HoleIt remained one of Western Canada's largest retail greenhouse stores until it closed in early 2011 when the Hole family moved the operation to their new site on the edge of Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park, and opened the Enjoy Centre.
Alphonzo BellIn 1922, building on over that he had acquired, Bell founded Bel Air Estates, an exclusive and upscale neighborhood now known as Bel-Air, enhancing the surrounding area with lush vegetation, new roads, and utilities ; designed, laid out and developed the Bel-Air Country Club and the Bel Air Bay Club ; and was a key player in the group that developed the Riviera Country Club.
Reg SpriggDuring 1968, Sprigg purchased the pastoral lease of Arkaroola, a property and important uranium exploration field of 610 square kilometres in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, and converted it into a wildlife refuge and tourist attraction.
Frederick Ingersoll After the 1905 opening of Indianola Park in Columbus, Ohio, Ingersoll turned his attention to his proposed Luna Park chain.
Albert Grant (company promoter)In January 1874 they were unexpectedly informed that Grant had'' for some months past been in negotiation with the owners for the purchase of the ground with a view to laying it out as a garden, and handing it over to the Board as a gift to the Metropolis''.
Wong Foon SienIn 1963, he resigned from a consultative committee arranged by mayor William Rathie to'' underline his determined opposition'' to the Strathcona Rehabilitation Project development that he deemed would result in'' the equivalent of a Berlin wall'' separating business and residential areas of Chinatown.
E. Snapper IngramIn January 1930, Ingram and seven other council members who had voted in favor of granting a rock-crushing permit in the Santa Monica Mountains were unsuccessfully targeted for recall on the grounds that the eight have conspired with... Alphonzo Bell, Samuel Traylor and Chapin A. Day, all multi-millionaires, to grant this group a special spot zoning permit to crush and ship... from the high-class residential section of Santa Monica, limestone and rock for cement.
William West DurantIn 1876, Durant built a rustic compound on Long Point in Raquette Lake in the center of the Adirondacks to entertain potential investors in the railroad and in his land development schemes.
Louis Lesser During the post-World War II West Coast housing boom, in 1950 Lesser developed Torrance Gardens, and made $ (calculated in current dollars) in sales by 1950.
Joe TreesAn important benefactor for the University of Pittsburgh and its athletic department, in 1912 he donated $ 100,000 for the construction of the original Trees Gymnasium and Trees Stadium/Field that sat near the site of the present day Veterans Administration Hospital in Oakland.
Scott MaddoxIn 1995, the city commission chose Maddox as the city's mayor where he worked towards improving race relations and overseeing a large expansion of city parks, greenways, and trails.
Peter NehrIn the spring of 2011, Nehr chose to close Fun City Sweepstakes in Palm Harbor which he owned, after the Pinellas County Sheriff threatened to shut it down as a gambling establishment.
Robert Cushman MurphyAfter his retirement to his home in Old Field, New York in 1957 he, along with other citizens of Long Island including Archibald Roosevelt, unsuccessfully sued to stop the spraying of DDT arguing that it was damaging the wildlife.
Frederick PabstIn 1889, Pabst spent $ 30,000 to take advantage of prime shoreline along Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin's unique location, just north of the city of Milwaukee, by developing a popular lakeshore resort, which he called the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort.
Irene MarieIn 1989, Marie was one of the first real estate investors in South Beach to purchase and renovate an original ocean front building.
Zev YaroslavskyIn 2007, Yaroslavsky appropriated $ 2 million from the Third District's capital projects budget for the construction of a landmark concert venue in the San Fernando Valley, predicting that it would revitalize the underserved region as Disney Concert Hall had done in downtown Los Angeles.
Maksym TymchenkoTymchenko guided DTEK's restructuring : by the end of 2012, the company adopted the new structure, which includes 13 mine groups (comprising 31 mines and coal processing facilities), seven coal processing plants, ten thermal power plants, five power supplying companies, DTEK Oil & Gas, and Botievo wind farm, the largest wind power plant in Ukraine, (the operator is Wind Power LLC), the first stage of which was commissioned in October 2012.
Emil SickIn 1944, Sick looked to expand his involvement in baseball by purchasing Athletic Park for $ 35,000 from the land holder, the Canadian Pacific Railway.
L. R. Kershawthumb | right |''' Kershaw Angus Farm''' ten (10) miles south of Muskogee near Oktaha, Oklahoma As President of the Southwest American Livestock Show, he saw the need for a new facility to show cattle in Oklahoma City, which was founded in 1889.
Dorothy Mae Richardson- April 28, 1991) was an African-American community activist who is credited with introducing a new model of community development in the late 1960s when she led a resident campaign for better housing in her neighborhood on the Central North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ron JoyceIn 2000, Joyce opened Fox Harb' r Golf Resort & Spa, a five star, four diamond resort / gated community.
Nelson RockefellerIn one controversial move, Rockefeller abandoned one of Moses's most desired projects, a Long Island Sound bridge from Rye to Oyster Bay in 1973 due to environmental opposition.
Wayne NewtonIn late 2009, officials at Oakland County International Airport in Waterford, Michigan claimed Newton owed the airport more than $ 60,000 for unpaid parking fees, which they claimed he owed after having abandoned a $ 2 million Fokker F28 plane there more than three years before.
James WhartonSince Wharton has visited the country, companies such as Cleveland Bridge in Darlington have directly benefited from Sri Lankan investment : in May 2013, the renowned structural engineering company was awarded a # 35 million contract from the Sri Lankan Government to produce 210 bridges for jungle and rural areas across the island country.
Swante M. SwensonUnder the privilege then accorded to holders and owners of such certificates to file on any untaken state land, Swenson in 1854 began acquiring acreage of unclaimed properties in Northwest Texas.
Selma RubinIn 1970, she successfully led a voter campaign to preserve the Gaviota Coast of California from a proposal to build 1,535 condos in the area.
Franklin D. RooseveltHe tried a wide range of therapies, including hydrotherapy, and, in 1926, he purchased a resort at Warm Springs, Georgia, where he founded a hydrotherapy center for the treatment of polio patients, one which still operates as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation.
James MerrillTogether, Jackson and Merrill moved to Stonington, Connecticut in 1955, purchasing a property at 107 Water Street (now the site of writer-in-residency program, the James Merrill House, sponsored by the Stonington Village Improvement Association in Stonington Borough).
Edward WatkinWatkin successfully opened the park in 1894 and built a new station at Wembley Park, but the tower ran into financial and structural difficulties.
John Mifflin HoodHe managed a rebuilding of the system and its Pratt Street Power Plant located on the Basin (now called the Inner Harbor) after the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.
Thomas S. HamblinAfter a fire in 1845, Hamblin tried to build a new theatre on Broadway, but local residents opposed the plan.
Geoff Brown (businessman)During this period, Brown oversaw the sale of Muirton Park to Asda and the club's move to a newly built McDiarmid Park stadium in the Tulloch area of the city, which was opened in 1989.
Robert Irwin (artist)For Sentinel Plaza (1990) in Pasadena, California, Irwin chose small desert plants and cacti.
Thomas P. G. CholmondeleyHe is also responsible for the design and layout of the Soysambu Wildlife Sanctuary and the building of Delamere's Camp in 1993, a high-class tourist lodge with a exclusive sanctuary covering the area around Lake Elementeita.
Arshad Hasan In late 2010, DFA and Arshad received a large amount of press when the controversy over the Park 51 Islamic Community Center in downtown Manhattan started.
Frank ZeidlerZeidler spearheaded planning and construction of the beginning of Milwaukee's freeway system, and turned it over to Milwaukee County in 1954.
Pliny Fisk IIIIn 1983, Fisk was sponsored by the Center for Investigation and Documentation of the Atlantic Coast (CIDCA) to set into motion a large scale indigenous housing program for the Moskito Indians of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast.
Nelson Skalbania As of 2003, Skalbania has continued to work behind the scenes in Vancouver to finance real estate projects, including an $ 800-million ski and golf resort near Squamish, B. C..
Henry MooreOn the campus of the University of Chicago in December 1967, 25 years to the minute after the team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, Moore's Nuclear Energy was unveiled on the site of what was once the university's football field stands, in the squash courts beneath which the experiments had taken place.
Charles H. GrastyOn June 18, 1906, Grasty and Gen. Felix Agnus (owner of the ancient Baltimore American teamed up to purchase The Baltimore Herald at the northwest corner of St. Paul and East Fayette Streets whose building had been ruined by the Fire, just across to the west from the untouched new massive City Circuit Courthouse, just completed four years earlier on the northern edge of the'' Burnt District''.
Chu Ke-liangOn 19 February 2009, correspondents from the tabloid Apple Daily followed Chu in various areas of Kaohsiung and Pintung Counties before confronting him in a Yongda Road swordfish oden noodle restaurant in Pingtung City.
Jean de BrabantIn 1986 Jean conceived and began development of `` Tropics North'', a 12 story condominium, a distinctive characteristic of which is that all the apartments possess large terraces opening on to a 12 story high green-house, designed by Herb Ramsaier, to recreate a Hawaiian environment on the banks of the St. Lawrence.
Ross I. RomeroIn December 2011, Romero was criticized for accepting contributions from the Talisker Corporation and other supporters of the controversial Ski Link proposal to build a gondola connecting The Canyons ski resort to Salt Lake County.
Chuck Greenberg (businessman)In 2007, Greenberg again represented Lemieux and the Penguins in successful negotiations with the state, the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County which resulted in a deal to build the brand-new, state-of-the-art Consol Energy Center in downtown Pittsburgh and secured the future of the Penguins in Pittsburgh for another 30 years.