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How A College Dropout Built A $2.9 Billion Real Estate Empire
Like the Oracle of Omaha, Roy Carroll has made a fortune buying low and rarely selling. His sweet spot: cheap land that he’s turned into lucrative apartment complexes across the Southeast. Now Greensboro’s richest resident is biding his time, waiting for the coming real estate market collapse. At a monthly outdoor barbecue in a parking lot in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, roughly 80 employees of the Carroll Companies gather around a plastic table piled with trays of hush puppies, mac and cheese and gallon jugs of sweet tea. Clad in khakis, a striped polo and an Apple watch, Roy E. Carroll II blends right in, loading a paper plate with…
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LONDON COLLEGE OF GARDEN DESIGN NAMES MOST ICONIC NEW GARDENS
As well as being outstanding examples of garden design they are working with their environment and the climate change that we are experiencing. LONDON COLLEGE OF GARDEN DESIGN NAMES MOST ICONIC NEW GARDENS The London College of Garden Design (LCGD) recently asked an international panel of speakers to choose their iconic garden of the previous decade that will, in their mind, be the gardens we will still be talking about as landmarks in garden design in 20 years-time. Everyone who came to the presentations was asked to vote for the most iconic new gardens and the results are now in! The top-rated gardens are – 1. Hilldrop –…
