It was the spring of 2009, and construction crews at Los Angeles City College appeared to have accomplished the neat trick of building a track and athletic field on the roof of a new parking structure.
Von Ahn, of course, has quite a track record of building successful companies.
"Housing associations have a track record of building through tough times, having upped their output through the last recession when private developers could not.
Meg Mitchell, clerk of Chestnut Hill Friends, said the contractor for the meeting house was selected on the basis of price, quality and its track record of building houses of worship.
But some of its other projects have yet to secure buyers or fuel supplies.However, Reliance, the larger group of which Reliance Power is part, does have a track record of building power plants.
To its backers, Newhall Ranch is a sensitively planned community, the vision of a responsible developer with a long track record of building affordable slices of the American dream.
With a track record of building temporary projects that have breathed life into abandoned sites with unusual beauty and wit – from converting a petrol station into a cinema, to making a performance space beneath a flyover – the practice has brought a fresh approach to how these empty homes could be rethought on the tightest of budgets.
According to the Sunday Times ad the successful chief executive applicant needed to be "an inspirational leader with strong strategic skills, consumer orientation and a track record of building successful businesses in sectors where high levels of quality and service are demanded and delivered".
"It helps that someone with a demonstrated business sense in communications is in a position to run things," said Roger Rusch, an industry consultant, referring to Mr. McCaw's stellar track record of building McCaw Cellular into an enterprise that he sold to AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1994.
"The family have a proven track record of building successful teams on the field, and balancing the books off it".
