McDonald's, the world's largest owner of retail locations, also has real-estate development down to a science.
At the same time, limited space for real-estate development has driven up property prices across the board.
Other similar opportunities abound in infrastructure, construction, real-estate development, financial services and health care, to name a few.
Of the more than 100 rezonings in the past 10 years, most have been about creating opportunities for new real-estate development.
Mr. Porcelli, president of real-estate development firm LargaVista, decided he wanted to redevelop the site when BP's lease was up at 300 Lafayette St.
"It takes a lot of shoe leather, " says Mr. Salguero, 30, who turned to entrepreneurship after getting laid off from a real-estate development firm.
Nelson, director of Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, estimates, for example, that half of the real-estate development built by 2025 will not have existed in 2000.
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One client is Maryanne Ingemanson, 77 years old, who made a fortune in California real-estate development and now lives on the shores of Lake Tahoe, Nev.
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"We wanted a place where we could be outside and still have privacy, " says Ms. Lowder, whose husband owns a local real-estate development and insurance firm.
Real-estate development, he says, tends to produce "sensationalist" viewpoints.
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Orix, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1998 and whose shareholder base is more than 50% outside Japan, also operates in investment banking, life insurance, venture capital and in the financing of real-estate development.
While the restaurant industry has been hammered over the past couple of years by a consumer-spending pullback, lower real-estate and development costs and lower rents have emerged as a tailwind for those chains still in expansion mode.
Restaurant owner Koshiba and his brother-in-law -- Paul Yang, the CEO of Delta Capital, a real estate development company -- will watch the political leadership with a wary eye.
The railroad companies were losing money and would soon be heading for bankruptcy, and the once-proud stations were left to moulder and decay as anachronistic and expensive behemoths, standing in the way of modernity, and progress - and real estate development.
Last month, restaurants on the Pearl were instructed to suspend alcohol sales until further notice, according to a person familiar with the matter at Doha-based United Development Company, the real-estate developer that built the island.
If additional yuan loans were mortgage-based and tied to Chinese real estate development projects Africans could conceivably become first-time home owners in waves, while paying little interest.
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John Van Vlack, the president of HLSS, said in an interview that the dividend payout was intended to be similar to those of real-estate investment trusts or business development companies, to attract similar kinds of income-seeking investors, which help keep capital costs low if the company goes back to the market for additional fundraisings.
Brokering this hefty real estate deal would require the monarch put in an accepted counter-offer against the Rudin Organization, a real estate development and management company hoping to construct luxury residences at the shuttered hospital location.
This was considered by many to be the most daring real estate development in down-town Atlanta.
Nor is this about deal making, real estate development, or self-promotion.
Karp, who owns New England Development, has inked his a deal to redevelop a West Palm Beach mall with fellow Boston firm Eastern Real Estate and the high-profile Philadelphia development firm Lubert-Adler.
City-funded urban development projects are installing a pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, and a real estate boom is enabling a young, creative class of artists and entrepreneurs to open hip boutiques and restaurants.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said it will continue with policies design to prevent over-investment from real estate investors next year.
The development of real estate into higher-value uses through into and through the real estate boom and other items has not generated a positive return.
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Today, the buildings are a largely vacant eyesore flanking Sunset Boulevard, a reminder of the challenges real-estate investors face even as new residents and some development have begun to reverse Hollywood's decline.
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Business development is another ripe avenue for real-estate professionals, notes Mr. Hargis, who is also a human-resources adjunct professor at Suffolk University in Boston.
Iraq veteran Curtis Ridgeway, co-founder of Urban Improvement Construction, a real estate development, design and construction firm, discovered the Veterans Corporation center in St.
The university, advised by Ira Schuman of real-estate services firm Studley, marketed the building as a potential development site.
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Real estate development firm Amrep (nyse: AXR - news - people ) is up 79% since its vice chairman and majority shareholder upped his stake from 58% to 60% in December.
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