Apple Inc. needed land for data center. Bought single family home for 1.7 million

[Liberal_in_LA]

this couple is lucky the city didn't eminent domain them and GIVE the land to Apple. That's how it goes these days


Apple data center means $1.7 million for house
Adam Satariano, Bloomberg News
October 6, 2010

Apple Inc. needed land owned by Donnie and Kathy Fulbright for a $1 billion data center in rural North Carolina. The couple showed no interest in moving out of their home of 34 years in the town of Maiden.

The Fulbrights say they spurned one offer, then a second. Finally, they agreed to sell for $1.7 million, county records show, opting to leave the single-story house on less than 1 acre of land they purchased for $6,000.

"They told us to put a price on it and we did," Kathy Fulbright, 62, said in the home she and her husband built with the proceeds. The 49-acre property boasts a 4,200-square-foot house with a Jacuzzi in the master bathroom, as well as a man-made pond stocked with bass and catfish.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/06/BUFM1FOD1P.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz11brdHjqv

[Dappleganger]

1. Good for them.

Now they have their dream home and Apple is bringing good paying JOBS to NC.

[napi21]

2. Well good for them! nt

[Adsos Letter]

3. Huh! Wonder if they need a property like that in my neck of the woods?

:D

[frazzled]

6. Me too ...

Hey, Apple: you need a condo near downtown Chicago? I'll sell it to you for ... say, $1.7 million.

[grace0418]

7. No, I think my condo in Lincoln Square is a much better option.

;)

[frazzled]

10. Howdy neighbor!

I love Lincoln Square. Great restaurants and shops, lovely streets.

I'm in "Fulton River District," which is kind of a mystery to most people.

[grace0418]

12. Hi! I know the area. Used to work on the marketing for a lot of lofts and condo conversions

down there when all that was happening at breakneck speed. There are some great places around there.

Love Lincoln Square too. We have to move soon and I'm very sad about it because Lincoln Square has condos like ours or huge million dollar single family homes. Nothing in between. So I keep savoring every stroll down to the square or a favorite restaurant, knowing that soon it won't be my hood anymore. :(

[surrealAmerican]

9. Surely, they'd rather be up here ...

... in Evanston.

[frazzled]

11. Evanston rocks

I went to grad school there, but many decades ago. Evanston sure has changed since the 70s! Best farmer's market in the Chicago area, too.

[sharp_stick]

4. I'm still pissed at New London CT

spend years trying to kick people out of their homes to give the land to Pfizer. Finally using eminent domain to force shitty deals on them, taking that all the way to the Supreme Court and winning.

The people move out, Pfizer tells New London to Fuck Off, they don't feel like building there any more and now it's just another coastline eyesore.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. awful.

[formercia]

8. Hope they enjoy paying the Property Taxes.

Hope their money doesn't run out.