Restaurant owner Koshiba and his brother-in-law -- Paul Yang, the CEO of Delta Capital, a real estate development company -- will watch the political leadership with a wary eye.

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Stanback was previously employed by New Kenwood, a real estate development company co-owned by convicted felon Tony Rezko (who arranged a great deal for the president on a Chicago home purchase).

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The brothers run a real estate development company, Forest, which builds small shopping centers, operates variety stores and sells sundry goods such as trash bags, foil, hangers and laundry nets to chain stores.

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To establish Trinidad S.A., a joint venture real estate development company, he first had to convince the Cubans that real estate was a good idea.

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Brokering this hefty real estate deal would require the monarch put in an accepted counter-offer against the Rudin Organization, a real estate development and management company hoping to construct luxury residences at the shuttered hospital location.

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In 2003 I got into real estate development and formed a private equity company with partners on the West Coast.

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Last month, restaurants on the Pearl were instructed to suspend alcohol sales until further notice, according to a person familiar with the matter at Doha-based United Development Company, the real-estate developer that built the island.

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