Private Airstrips around the globe
Brazil
Fazenda landing strip near Rio
Golf course airstrip near Rio
Fujairah
Sheikhs Palace
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Oman
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Russia
USA
Neverland Ranch with Airstrip and Heliport
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San Antonio Pastor
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland, who runs Kenneth Copeland Ministries, was one of several televangelists whose finances were investigated from 2007 to 2011 by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa. According to an article by the Associated Press that ran in 2008, “His ministry’s 1,500-acre campus, behind an iron gate a half-hour drive from Fort Worth...includes a church, a private airstrip, a hangar for the ministry’s $17.5 million jet and other aircraft, and a $6 million church owned lakefront mansion.”
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The article later added that while Copeland has not released up-to-date salary statements, “the church disclosed in a property-tax exemption application that his wages were $364,577 in 1995; Copeland’s wife, Gloria, earned $292,593. It’s not clear whether those figures include other earnings, such as special offerings for guest preaching or book royalties.”
Kenya's development
Eldoret Town has attracted a Sh40 billion real estate project, making it the single largest investment by the private sector in Western Kenya and the latest in a growing list of multi-billion-shilling investments outside Nairobi.
The initiative to be known as Sergoit Golf and Wildlife Resort was unveiled by Tourism Minister Najib Balala, a signal that it is eyeing to tap into the expected demand for accommodation as the western circuit opens up to tourists.
Sergoit Holdings Limited, the company behind the project says it will be built in four phases. It will entail over 2,000 villas, three golf courses, a 5-star hotel, a shopping mall, a conference centre, a hospital, schools and a private airstrip among other amenities enclosed in a 3,100 acre perimeter fence.
Sergoit means good luck ahead in Kalenjin.
Each phase will cost about Sh10 billion with Phase I expected to be completed in a year, according to Sergoit Holdings chairman Joshua Chepkwony.
Located 15 kilometres north east of Eldoret Town, the project is expected to be completed by 2016 with an expected boost to the tourism industry, currently grappling with an estimated 40,000 deficit in quality bed capacity.
Like Tatu City, the company will put up an independent management company to run physical infrastructure, including roads, power, water, waste, drainage and fibre optic connection among others, in what is being envisioned as a golf town, but on a co-shared ownership structure with residents.
Other features of the leisure and golf resort city include scenic nature and fitness trails, a view of game and scenery, rock climbing, athletic training tracks and a water splash.
“This investment will add to the existing bed capacity within this region, which is among the priority areas targeted for diversifying our tourism products,” said Tourism minister Najib Balala last week in Nairobi.
“Important too is the fact that the resort presents experiential and interactive tourism, which has become the latest trend among the youthful and middle class tourists from all over the world,” he said.
The project seeks to tap into the growing middle and upper economic classes as well as rising remittances from the Diaspora. Eldoret is Kenya’s fifth largest town and one of the fastest growing with a population of about a quarter a million.
Movement of the real estate market outside Nairobi is also being driven by the newly rich class of professionals and top civil servants who are looking for quiet peri-urban homes, but cannot afford the rocketing prices of similar property in the capital.
Other projects lined up outside Nairobi include a Sh1 billion investment into a 190-unit housing project by property firm Translakes Limited in Kisumu Town, a 2,400 acre holiday leisure and golf resort city, Longonot Gate, Naivasha’s exclusive Green Park and Vipingo Ridge estates.
