Value added: create a conveyor belt for innovation



With the help of others, often through the lens of my favorite intellectual training, among other projects. A McDonald's or a Starbucks real estate company, as long as the food and drink stop. Disney on ice is not the ideal audience of 10-year-old. It wants to be a hero to a child of her parents. And General Electric's biggest power is the bulb.


Washington developer, technology entrepreneur, restaurateur and nightclub owner Anthony Lanier he build Georgetown barony when explaining the business fields real estate in prompted me to see 60 buildings and eight different football fields, occupies enough to fill a square foot. "We are building a conveyor belt for innovation" Lanier (pronounced Ron-Yes), 59, profitable stores and offices turned into a dilapidated town house methodology is explained.


Lanier's Assembly lines are engineers, architects, historic preservation professionals, attorneys and renovated building, one will be able to pump up the construction industry section. In the mid-1990s purchase of 3,060 M St NW. price in town house: $ 540,000. It was about $ 2 million worth now, Lanier said. The following is a list of street-downtown House. Cost: approximately $ 1 million. He has $ 600,000 bought the M St NW for 3067. Then he bought in foreclosure M St. NW 3210.


Through the process and build trust with profit-making and Lanier municipal authorities. "There was no ' aside ' salami approach to project and, therefore, make no mistake, had excellent risk diversification served itself can have a significant impact that is large enough for it," he said.


It's 10 years, had a retail demand increased property values, and Lanier's bet to pay. He is a resident of Georgetown Brooks Brothers, Crate Barrel's CB2 chain, Mac cosmetics, & Madewell is included in the room rate. His property portfolio is worth a few billion. Success did not come without controversy. He shall have the right to buy Georgetown Park Mall developer herb Miller, and very public, embroiled in a five-year trial.


Lanier Empire real estate management and development company EastBanc Inc., EastBanc technologies, Leopold Cafe restaurant, L2 lounge, where celebrities such as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban comic Kathy Griffin was raised recently at his trendy nightclub over a number of companies, including more than 200 employees.


I met an interesting and eclectic Lanier as entrepreneur. He is a thumpingly Rales brothers (Danaher she) and the Lerners (real estate, baseball) and as such will not be rich. But that money. Maybe it is the tens of thousands of millions of people.


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