Air pollution emitted from the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate complexes was associated with increased adduct levels in petrochemical workers and nearby residents.
The WTC cover was the biggest insurance policy ever on a single real-estate complex.
As they expanded rapidly on Long Island and in New Jersey, the publicly traded assisted-living companies bypassed the city itself as an undesirable location because of high real estate costs, complex licensing regulations and difficult zoning restrictions.
Appearing more like the set of a James Bond movie than prime real estate, the complex still has a bar and two canteens, not in use, and a billiard room, not to mention functioning water and electricity supplies.
Indeed, its director, Claude Lelouch, lives in the area and his onetime estate, a complex of half-timbered Norman-style pavilions around a swimming pool, is now the Manoirs de Tourgéville hotel, which opened in June.
David Leonhardt wrote about the so-called Real Estate Industrial Complex in the Times last July: Encompassing everything from land surveyors to general contractors to loan officers, the sprawling sector has added 700,000 jobs to the nation's payrolls over the last four years, according to an analysis by Economy.com, a research firm.
The dispute over his estate is complex.
A series of bank failures, due to mismanaged portfolios of corporate loans, real estate, and complex derivatives, was a painful reminder of the existence of extreme risks.
"The real estate industrial complex drove Florida's economy," says Roy Oppenheim, a housing lawyer at a Ft. Lauderdale firm.
