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During the 20th century, Long Island (and the US as a whole) saw a pattern of mass suburbanization. [1] Levitt and Sons – one of the most famous real estate firms of the 20th century – built many housing developments across Long Island (and the US, as a whole), including Levittown, New York – which is widely considered as being America's first mass-produced suburb, and also as the ...
Levittown is the name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States (including one in Puerto Rico) by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning white veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and ...
Levitt & Sons was a real estate development company founded by Abraham Levitt and later managed by his son William Levitt. The company built the town of Levittown, New York. The company's designs and building practices transformed the home building industry and altered the north eastern landscape of the United States with massive suburban ...
Levittown was designed to provide a large amount of housing at a time when there was a high demand for affordable family homes. [11] This suburban development would become a symbol of the "American Dream" as it allowed thousands of families to become home owners.
Concord Green, a subdivision in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, is one such development. It was built in 1959 and consists of three cul-de-sacs and 50 homes — with just two floor plans.
A master service agreement, sometimes known as a framework agreement, is a contract reached between parties, in which the parties agree to most of the terms that will govern future transactions or future agreements. A master agreement delineates a schedule of lower-level service agreements, permitting the parties to quickly enact future ...
He entered the agreement thinking he would play an active role in ITT affairs, but executives felt Levitt was too old to take on more responsibility. [14] Levitt remained president under ITT until 1972. During that time he led the subsidiary's development of housing projects in Palm Coast, Florida; Richmond, Virginia; and Fairfax, Virginia.
A tract housing development in San Jose, California. Tract housing came about in the 1940s when the demand for cheap housing skyrocketed. Economies of scale meant that large numbers of identical houses could be built in a "cookie cutter" fashion faster and more cheaply to fulfill the growing demand. Developers would purchase a dozen or more ...