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East 78th Street Houses

The opening of the New York and Harlem Railroad, supplemented by horse cars of the Third Avenue Railway after 1852 made what was then the village of Yorkville attractive to developers, as its horse cars brought the suburb within commuting distance of the commercial heart of New York, which was still concentrated below 14th Street.

John H. Hannah, Jr.

The investigation ended in the conviction of House Speaker Gus Mutscher for conspiring to accept bribes from promoter Frank Sharp, in the form of loans from the Sharpstown State Bank.

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations are a group of charitable foundations established by American industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, onetime Alcoa president and Florida land developer.


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Arthur Motyer

Born in Hamilton, Bermuda, the son of building contractor and land developer Ernest Motyer and Edith Brunning, he was educated at Saltus Grammar School and later (1942-1945) studied English literature at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Bridle Path, Toronto

Forsey Page, a Toronto-based land developer, envisioned the Bridle Path as an "exclusive enclave of estate homes" and he built the neighbourhood's first home, a Cape Cod Colonial style home at 2 The Bridle Path.

Castleton Tower

The land initially went to an Aspen, Colorado land-developer with a local partner who planned to subdivide the land creating lots for residential housing.

Dick Evey

After his football career, Evey became a land developer in Blount County, Tennessee, where he was involved in restoring historic Perry's Mill, a working gristmill in Walland, Tennessee.

Fincastle, Virginia

John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), physician and land developer, Los Angeles, California

Fredericktown, Maryland

Owen Burns, an entrepreneur, banker, builder, and land developer who at one time owned the majority of Sarasota, Florida, was born in Fredericktown.

GDC Communities

GDC Communities is a private real estate investment and land developer based in the United States which originated from Genstar to facilitate US projects.

James Horne

James Welton Horne (1853–1922), Canadian land developer, businessman, and political figure

James Thornton

James Johnston Thornton (1816–?), judge, land developer, and quartermaster of the Union Army

Moses Sherman

Moses Hazeltine Sherman (December 3, 1853 – September 10, 1932) was an American land developer who built the Phoenix Street Railway in Phoenix, Arizona, and later built other lines and owned property in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood, California.

New Kingman-Butler, Arizona

New Kingman-Butler was named for Leroy Butler (not to be confused with LeRoy Butler, the NFL player), who was the original land developer of this unincorporated community.

Tejon Ranch

Beale's son, Truxtun Beale, sold the Tejon Ranch in 1912 to a syndicate of investors headed by Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler and land developer Moses Sherman.