She added that the area's farmers, many from families who settled here 200 or 300 years ago, were unusually reluctant to sell; it took her 11 years to persuade one to part with a parcel for an industrial park at an interchange.
He then looped a string around the bundle, like a parcel for the post office.
"I need you to take in a parcel for Mrs Hubble at 24. Nobody else is in".
"It don't think that all that money should go to a specific group to buy a parcel for 40 or 50 people to grow vegetables," said Boyd. "What about the people in North Laguna who might want a community garden?
Companies can lease a 65,000-square-meter parcel for $200 a month.
For some Brooklyn residents, who balked at the use of an outsize park parcel for a niche sport, it is good riddance.
While working one overgrown parcel for a neighbor, Mr. Coddington discovered a rusting horse-drawn plow buried beneath a foot of earth, a find that suggested the land had not been farmed in a century.
(The building's future became somewhat cloudy recently because the city hopes to include its site as part of a larger parcel for a new home for the New York Stock Exchange). Of those units, 175 were vacated by New York University, which has since leased all 576 apartments at 200 Water Street, another downtown building being converted by Rockrose.
Three months later, he bought the entire 45-acre parcel for a price he described as "less than $200,000".
Other bidders wanted the parcel for a boat dock, driving the price up considerably from its assessed value of $2,970.
