Most notably, the Marcoses have suddenly revived their claims to valuable chunks of property and shareholdings in some of the Philippines' largest companies.
The family's increasingly bold assertions of owning large chunks of property and shares may reflect its growing confidence that it stands a chance of getting its hands on some of this loot, deal or no deal.
Tourism development in Orlando requires large chunks of property, and few people understand that business better than Robert McEwan.
Sidewalk '9' Q.: The red, three-dimensional "9" in the middle of the sidewalk in front of 9 West 57th Street occupies a substantial chunk of city property.
In 2005, New York State condemned a 246-acre chunk of the property owned by Gyrodyne, adjacent to the land now proposed for development.
The New York City plan calls for more than $4 billion in construction, including a $3.4 billion development of the area west of Midtown, now occupied by Hudson Yards, the largest chunk of undeveloped property in Manhattan.
In a complex legal arrangement, the Augustinians, who had their buildings confiscated by the Communists but returned after the Velvet Revolution, have leased a large chunk of their property to Rocco Forte and watched it metamorphose from disrepair to deluxe.
Every so often, a fairy tale story like Mitzi's hits New York — consider the legend of Natalia Vodianova, the young Russian model who went from selling fruit on the street to modeling for Vogue, marrying into a British real estate fortune and owning a huge chunk of TriBeCa property, all within a matter of a few years.
The motel was on a chunk of downtown property where Amazon planned to eventually erect yet another set of sparkling buildings to meet its insatiable need for office space in this city, where it has come to embody both the region's economic boom and its struggles with affordability.
