Freeport's Stronghold

Tax Dispute Puts West Texas Town in Financial Limbo

"...to an ongoing tax dispute between Freeport's local subsidiary, FM Properties, and the Travis Central Appraisal District. In 1993,..."

Oct. 3, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Natural Born Leader

Mayor Hits the Ground Running His First 100 Days

"...chum Richard Suttle, lawyer for the Lakeway Partners and FM Properties at Circle C, for ideas. Within 24 hours..."

Oct. 3, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Chasing Gary

To Annex or Not to Annex

"...allows large developments to escape the city's development regulations. FM Properties (FMP), which owns the commercial property at Circle..."

Sept. 19, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Brown and Davis, an Austin law firm that represents FM Properties and other development companies, said the legislative move..."

July 25, 1997 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...proposed $4 million acquisition of the water/wastewater system of FM Properties' developments on Barton Creek. Neither the Sierra Club's..."

Jan. 24, 1997 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...of Appeals ruling that the city did not violate FM Properties' constitutional rights. The decision is a reversal of..."

Aug. 23, 1996 News Feature

Off the Desk:

"...and cons of buying a piece of land from FM Properties, Inc., among other property holders...."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature

Night of the Living BCCP, Part 37

Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan: Half a Loaf?

"...say, apparently not knowing the relationship between Freeport and FM Properties, that "Another major backer is FM Properties, Inc.,..."

May 19, 1995 News Feature by Robert Bryce

If You Can't Stand the Heat ...

Republican Jill Warren is behind in the polls and going negative on her Democratic opponent Ann Kitchen, in the race for House District 48 in Travis County.

"...however, that one of Warren's biggest contributors is Stratus Properties -- a spinoff of FM Properties, the developers of..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Media Clips

The Statesman doesn't let facts get in the way of telling the truth about the Tim Jones tapes.

"...to intensify or reduce their scrutiny of Barton Creek Properties" depending on whether the developer would drop a trespassing..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...a 940,000 square-foot facility at the southeast corner of FM 1826 and Hwy 45. The Circle C site -..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature

FWS Approves Stratus-pheric Development

"...A plan by Stratus Properties to develop its Circle C property has received the..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

City council continues to keep public out of Stratus negotiations. Paul Robbins urges individuals and publications to count Floridal votes, A Georgia company sold a flawed list of ineligible voters to Florida.

"...Public hearings on the Stratus Properties development deal with the city are a moving target...."

Dec. 8, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Mueller: The Art of the Deal

Will the City Give Away Mueller Airport to Save Barton Springs?

"...prefer not to have urbanized development on Stratus' other properties, and so we could make both those things happen,..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

After environmentalists object, the council postpones a hearing to decide whether to trade land at Mueller Airport with Stratus Properties.

"...Activists working against the city's proposed deal with Stratus Properties got a reprieve last week when the City Council..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

After months of litigation over who owns what portion of the Sand Beach Reserve on Town Lake, Lumbermen's Development Corp. has offered the city a deal. Also: the council discusses a settlement with Stratus properties over development on their land over the aquifer, and the city amends the camping ordinance.

"...The council will begin discussing a settlement with Stratus Properties (formerly FM Properties, as in Freeport McMoRan). In the..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Signed and Sealed

With Bradley Out of the Way, Council Turns Attention to Stratus

"...is that once Bradley was taken care of, Stratus Properties (née FM Properties, aka Freeport McMoRan), would be right..."

March 31, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Council Watch

sos board votes no on the proposed bradley settlement

"...golf course on the Spillar Ranch and Pfluger Ranch properties...."

March 3, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

With Friends Like Jim Bob...

Developer Gary Bradley Is Sued by Old Pal as Finances Fade

"...Land Corp. (CCLC), is a subsidiary of New Orleans-based FM Properties (FMP), whose managing partner is Freeport-McMoRan...."

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Naked City

"...but by Moffett's protégé Beau Armstrong, CEO of Stratus Properties. Back in the old days, Moffett's Freeport-McMoRan owned Stratus,..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

S.o.s. 101

"...7. Folks turned out in record numbers to oppose FM Properties (now Stratus Properties) and its Barton Creek Planned..."

April 30, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

On the Lege

"...expertise as a "strategicadvisor and facilitator." Bullock's newest advisee?Status Properties (formerly known as FM Properties). But here's the catch:..."

March 5, 1999 News Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...from New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan. Beau Armstrong, the head of FM Properties Inc., the company that owns Barton Creek Properties..."

Nov. 7, 1997 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...could quadruple the population of their neighborhood. California-based Summit Properties wants to put 539 mobile homes on a 160-acre..."

Aug. 29, 1997 News Feature

Rose-Colored MUD

"...out there and serve them. Austin should have served FM Properties in my opinion. The development is there, and..."

Feb. 7, 1997 News Feature

Council Watch

"...23 vote to extend sewage lines to Barton Creek Properties, for example, Mitchell accused the predominantly white environmentalist crowd..."

June 23, 1995 News Column

Kick Me, I'm From Austin

Visiting the Lege, City Council, and Bergstrom

"...to Daryl Slusher's daily reports on KOOP radio, 91.7 FM, weekdays at 6:30pm...."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Naked City

Farewell

"...watershed. He doggedly covered the twists and turns of FM Properties' development in Austin, and the curiously parallel operations..."

Feb. 9, 2001 News Feature

Council Watch

City Council considers status of various development-related lawsuits in executive sessions.

"...of Austin's pending annexation of Circle C (Item 14: FM Properties Operating Co. v. City of Austin)...."

Oct. 22, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Council Watch

Water Gate: Is LCRA Offering City a Whale of a Deal?

"...behind-closed-doors, executive session discussion of pending lawsuits such as FM Properties Operating Co. v. City of Austin, and City..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

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