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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

Pro Builder

Shortly after, I read another piece on bankruptcies in home building, and soon I was thinking of the more than 250 builders I’ve worked with over more than three decades and wondering: Does this “ Anna Karenina Principle ” about families also apply to home building? The question is: How profitable and sustainable are they, and at what cost?

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

Business Facilities

Yes, we know that Detroit became the largest city in history to file for bankruptcy protection, a process the city is expected to emerge from this year. auto industry, Chrysler made a bold commitment to continue building its most profitable and recognizable vehicle in the city that long ago put cars on the map.

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Good Trouble—Necessary for Home Builders, Too

Pro Builder

These events, sometimes drawing tens of thousands, continued until the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, but were memorialized during the August 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago in an epic battle between thousands of protesters and Mayor Richard Daley’s police force. . One said nothing, while the other implied I made the whole thing up.