Brought up just minutes from Franklin's Gardens, Lawes is the local boy done good but was a late developer in rugby terms having only taken up the game at the age of 16.

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The property's previous owner, the estate of late developer and grocery-store magnate Lloyd King, had pursued selling the property to be developed into 40 houses before opting instead to sell it to Mr. Ergen in 2011.

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Rafiq Hariri, the late billionaire property developer, was elected prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his assassination in 2005.

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While in its planning phases, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs personally convinced the developer of the surrounding plaza to revise its own construction plans to make the Apple Store the centerpiece, the New York Times reported.

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One high-profile deal involves its purchase in late 2012 of a grade-A office and five-star hotel complex in downtown Shanghai from a distressed local developer.

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