But people had a dim view of modular as a large custom house.
"The inquiry level is picking up," said William S. Smith III, vice president of Trinity, the largest custom yacht builder in the United States.
This included lots of custom doors, trim molding and some large custom column wraps — huge wooden cylinders, hollow inside, that would hide structural steel columns in the embassy.
Glen M. Vetromile, a senior vice president at Related, said house prices at Tuxedo Reserve would start around $500,000 and could rise to $1.5 million or more for large custom homes.
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, the world's largest custom chip maker, said yesterday that it had settled its patent and trade secret lawsuits against Semiconductor Manufacturing International, a Chinese rival.
At the end of April I got started, and I completed the project in June: 14 chairs and a large custom table.
Today Covenant's lone tank and barrels take up a small corner in space rented at a large custom crush plant.
From fly rods to large custom graphite surf-casters and 180-pound-class big-game rods, Mr. Altenkirch uses a hand-fitted hickory bushing to attach the reel seat to the blank.
Some of the houses, which require steel frames and large custom windows, would have cost over $5 million to build, said Richard Reinhardt, who became a co-owner of the development in 2006.
Recent acquisitions that are part of or aligned with the division include NFO Worldwide, the largest custom marketing research company in North America, and substantially all the communications division of Carabiner International, which is being absorbed into the Jack Morton Company, a specialist in so-called experiential marketing (live events, interactive media and exhibits).
