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City Builders

The Maleks, The Olympics, and a Historic Gift to Vancouver
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Vancouver developers Peter and Shahram Malek have lost two great fortunes, both times at the hands of a hostile government. First, as young men in the flush of success, they were forced from Revolutionary Iran, leaving behind the massive construction and development business built by their father. Second, and more surprisingly, after rebuilding in Vancouver, to the point that they could deliver an internationally admired 80-acre, 1.5 millionsquare-foot Athletes Village in time for the 2010 Olympics, and the City pushed the project into insolvency and seized everything but the Maleks’ own homes.

Author Biography:

Richard Littlemore is an author, journalist, speechwriter, and consultant who specializes in issues including urban planning and development, academic affairs, sustainability, and climate change. Recent books include: Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCity, for Gordon Harris (with whom he is also writing the upcoming Urban Waste Land); The Fight forBeauty, and five other volumes for Westbank developer Ian Gillespie; and the award-winning Climate Cover-up, for former David Suzuki Foundation Chair James Hoggan.
Release date Australia
May 2nd, 2024
Pages
272
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9781998841042
Product ID
38249699

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