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increased by 2.8 times and the assessed value of a typical home increased by nearly 9 times, land by 15 times ($ 20,000 to $ 300,000 per quarter acre) and improvements by 5 to 10 times. All homes had air-conditioning. Air-conditioning was uncommon in homes of that price range at the time. Homeowners also have access to golf, tennis courts, and pools without membership fees. Broyhill's ideas, except for free golf, are realities today.
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Broyhill had long sought to develop a complete, self-contained satellite city. In the early 1960s, M.T. Broyhill and Sons entered into a partnership with U.S. Steel to develop 1,765 acres of farmland on either side of Route 7 into 3,500 houses, available in ten different models, 3,000 apartments, a
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100 acre shopping center, a 75 acre recreation area, including an 18-hole gold course and a two acre lake, two elementary schools and a high school and a 547 acre industrial park, to be named
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