This acquisition secures a building block in areas where we see the opportunity to build cash flow from near term, lower risk exploration, development or producing properties.
The tours have helped to finance the renovation, including the acquisition of a building.
The company's first acquisition was a building information modeling firm called Case, which was meant to help WeWork expand to new locations with faster and more efficient information around remodeling those new locations.
Mr. Santana said he had been ready to take the $3 million the redeveloper, Ocean Front Acquisitions, offered him for a building he bought for $800,000 two years ago -- and let the Pony be installed three blocks down the beach in an Art Deco former power plant.
Mr. Thompson, who comes across as earnest and determined, is not nearly as charismatic as First Union's previous chief executive, Edward E. Crutchfield Jr., who in 16 years took what was once a sleepy North Carolina bank through a dizzying 82 acquisitions, building a retail banking franchise that extends across 11 states.
Yahoo has also been one of the only Internet giants looking at acquisitions and building a presence in Indonesia, and it has been making a huge branding push into India in the last year.
Areva President Anne Lauvergeon has overseen a stunning acquisition record, building a $10 billion-plus per year, globe-straddling, fully integrated, mine-mouth to power plant nuclear enterprise.
That is the plan for one of the church's recent acquisitions, a single-story brick building at 56-58 West 129th Street it bought last year for $300,000 from the Central Harlem Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, which itself has moved on to 310 West 129th Street and rebuilt an existing Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall, doubling its size.
At Zealot, Zappin has been on an acquisition streak, building up a portfolio of agencies and media properties.
ABN Amro is developing its investment banking operations much as it developed commercial banking: with a few acquisitions, but building from scratch where it can't make sensible deals.
