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Ju Jun (Chinese: 橘郡; pinyin: Jú jùn; lit. 'Orange County') is a $60 million, 143-unit housing development situated about one hour north of Beijing, China, consisting entirely of expensive American-style townhouses and tract homes, decorated and furnished with American products.
Specific housing developments opposed by the Commission include 895 homes in Orange County, [63] 50 homes for the disabled in Half Moon Bay, [64] and 400 apartment units in Ventura County. [65] The Commission sets fees and fines for permit violations and has levied million-dollar penalties.
Speculative borrowing in residential real estate has been cited as a contributing factor to the subprime mortgage crisis. [84] During 2006, 22% of homes purchased (1.65 million units) were for investment purposes, with an additional 14% (1.07 million units) purchased as vacation homes. During 2005, these figures were 28% and 12%, respectively.
Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$1010 million in 2023. [4] The earliest sale on the list below (Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh) is from March 1987; with a price of £24.75 million (£87.9 million in 2023 currency). This sale tripled the previous record, and introduced a new era in top art sales.
Midwest became the largest longstanding operation at Mitchell Airport and served 21 cities nonstop (San Antonio (SAT) as well as Orange County, CA (SNA) were served from Milwaukee with one stop flights via Kansas City in 2005), [14] [15] while its regional partner Skyway Airlines, operating as Midwest Connect, served nearly 30 destinations ...
The plan originally included 66-story twin towers with column-free open spaces. The Empire State's owners and real estate speculators were worried that the twin towers' 7.6 million square feet (710,000 m 2) of office space would create a glut of rentable space in Manhattan as well as take away the Empire State Building's profits from lessees. [308]
At 4:57 a.m. local time (11:57 UTC) on June 28, 1992, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake awoke much of Southern California. Though it turned out it was not the so-called "Big One" as many people would think, it was still a very strong earthquake. The shaking lasted for two to three minutes.
9.5 million years ago, the Moraga Volcanics produces most of the lavas that underlie the East Bay ridges from present day Tilden Regional Park to Moraga; During the Quaternary glaciation beginning 2.58 million years ago, the basin that will be filled by the bay is a large linear valley with small hills, similar to most of the valleys of the ...