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Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m 2) mansion [1] incorporates technology in its design. [specify] [2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.
The project was developed by Strategic Property Partners, LLC.,a joint venture of Cascade Investment, owned by Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Jeffrey Vinik, owner of Tampa Bay Lightning. Phase one of the development of Water Street began in 2017 and phase two is expected to be completed in 2027.
The 2020 Land Report 100 broke the story of Bill Gates's ownership of 242,000 acres of farmland, an amount that ranked first in the United States among private landowners. Overall, Gates ranked No. 49 on the 2020 Land Report 100.
Gates bought the Xanadu land in 1988 for just $2 million—but proceeded to pour about $63 million into the property—and now the entire estate is worth about $130 million. It has 24 bathrooms ...
Take tech mogul Bill Gates. According to Entrepreneur magazine, the Microsoft Corp. co-founder and his former wife, Melinda French Gates, paid $2.7 million in property taxes last year – 700 ...
Gates' real estate holdings include a $130 million Washington mansion, Florida horse ranches, and a new California oceanfront purchase.
A google web search shows recent sources DO use Xanadu 2.0, but it seems like a case of citogenesis with some of these rather bloggy articles ("14 facts you wouldn't believe about Bill Gates house") seemingly explicitly citing Wikipedia for the Xanadu connection and the claim it was based on the Citizen Kane version (when the 1997 newspaper ...
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.