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Friendswood Development Company is a real estate development company operating in Greater Houston. The company is a subsidiary of Lennar . The company is best known for developing Kingwood , a 15,000-acre master-planned community northeast of Houston with more than 20,000 homes, developed over a 40-year period. [ 1 ]
Lennar dates back to F&R Builders, a company founded in 1954 by Gene Fisher and real estate developer Arnold P. Rosen. In 1956, Leonard Miller, who later became the namesake of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, a 23-year-old entrepreneur that owned 42 lots in Miami-Dade County, Florida, invested $10,000 and partnered with the company.
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Robert L. Waltrip founded the company in 1962. [7] SCI began as a small network of funeral homes and cemeteries in the Houston area.. SCI, Alderwoods Group, and Stewart Enterprises emerged from the 1990s as the three largest companies in the industry.
Several African-American-owned newspapers are published in Houston. Allan Turner of the Houston Chronicle said that the papers "are both journalistic throwbacks — papers whose content directly reflects their owners' views — and cutting-edge, hyper-local publications targeting the concerns of the city's roughly half-million African-Americans."
In 2002 he was inducted into the Texas Transportation Institute's Hall of Honor at Texas A&M University. In August 2007 he was also inducted into the Houston Hall of Fame. Lanier was a founding member of Houston Community College , which he continued to support until the end of his life.