biography
| name: |
Zeckendorf, William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–76)
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| biography:
| Real-estate developer, born in Paris, Illinois, USA. He spent his career in real estate, after 1938 with Webb & Knapp, New York, of which he became sole owner in 1949. Before the company's spectacular bankruptcy in 1965, he embodied glamorous real-estate dealmaking. He put together the United Nations site in New York, initiated major urban renewal developments, and employed architects such as I M Pei and Le Corbusier. |
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