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Only time will tell if the latest discount helps to move the needle on the 24-bathroom home with a private theater, spa, gym, and full sports complex on about 5 acres.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

When constructed, the facility will be more than twice the size of Manhattan and bigger even than Bryce Canyon’s 35,000 acres.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

After buying up 937,000 acres in New Mexico last year, or 1.2% of America’s fifth-largest state, he brought his holdings to 2.7 million acres across the country—the equivalent of about two million football fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The Garden Grove manufacturing site occupies about 16 acres and has faced regulatory sanctions in the past.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

I was in the midst of several thousand acres of exquisitely pretty woodlands shared jointly by Worthington State Forest and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson