Then he went to Key West, Fla., to try real estate developing.
Back home in Addis Ababa, Gebrselassie owns and runs a real estate developing business with his wife, Alem.
The plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park is for its operation and upkeep to be paid for by assessments on the real estate developed around it.
Working with the N.R.D.C. and another advocacy group, the Environmental Defense Fund, Mr. Neill's firm, called Cycle-7, is preparing to discuss with large commercial tenants ways to revise the standard leases used in commercial real estate, developing a way to share the costs and benefits of energy upgrades.
Global Crossing also said it had based its long-term leases on an arcane interpretation of Statement 66, a rule for recognizing profit or loss from sales of real estate developed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the group that sets accounting standards for business.
Also real estate: developing luxury hotels, office parks in California and the Southwest.
In 1993 Zhang moved into real estate, developing an island off Hainan and a commercial site in Zhejiang.
Ohio native still focused on real estate; developing $1.4 billion worth of apartments, shopping centers across the U.S. Other holdings: pizza, water pumps.
It was chaired by Marta Maurás, Senior UNICEF Consultant and included Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Ambassador Carmelo Angulo from Spain, and Porntat Amatavivadhana, Director of Sansiri, a Thai real estate developing company.
Imam Mohammed continued the business enterprises long favored by Black Muslims, including importing clothing, real estate development and developing skin care products.
