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  2. A bill banning Chinese citizens from buying property has some ...

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    The sponsor of the new Texas bill, Kolkhorst, cited "the purchase in 2021 of over 130,000 acres in South Texas by a Chinese-controlled firm" and its proximity to an Air Force base as among the ...

  3. 1880s Southern California real estate boom - Wikipedia

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    The 1880s Southern California real estate boom, also the boom of the eighties, sometimes just called the 1887 real estate boom, was the first big settlement push into Los Angeles County (including what is now Orange County), San Diego County (including what is now Imperial County), San Bernardino County (including what is now Riverside County ...

  4. Golden Venture - Wikipedia

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    Golden Venture was a 147-foot-long (45 m) cargo ship that smuggled 286 undocumented immigrants from China (mostly Fuzhou people from Fujian province) along with 13 crew members that ran aground on the beach at Fort Tilden on the Rockaway peninsula of Queens, New York on June 6, 1993, at around 2 a.m.

  5. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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    The Taiping Revolution in China and the poverty and violence in China induced many Chinese to leave China searching for a way to earn a better living. Most Chinese, like most early California travelers, came to California with the goal of quickly making enough money to pay for their passage and improve their own and their family's status and ...

  6. Frank Lin, a veteran Florida real estate agent who works mainly with Chinese buyers in both the United States and overseas, said his business has already been cut in half as he turns down clients ...

  7. Levingston Shipbuilding Company - Wikipedia

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    Between 1941 and 1945, Levinston built and delivered a total of 160 vessels for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army including tugs, tankers, barges and ocean going rescue tugs. After World War II, Levingston Shipbuilding changed with the economic times and became a worldwide leader in the design, engineering and construction of off-shore drilling rigs ...

  8. Haystack Landing - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, Frank Riggs purchased a 25% interest in a 37-acre parcel of land at Haystack Landing. [17] SFGate reported that it was intended to be developed as a hotel and office complex and that when Riggs was running for US Congress in 1990, he "indicated...he would sell his commercial real estate holdings to avoid any perception" of abuse of ...

  9. Chinese Billionaire On A $250 Million Luxury Real Estate ...

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    These High-Yield Real Estate Notes Might Be Your Holy Grail The most recent purchase by an entity connected to Gu (and by extension Xu) is the most expensive to date.