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Article: Olives the state's trend: Grupe and others try to revive production of oil in California.
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- Record (Stockton, CA)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2006
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Byline: Reed Fujii
Nov. 25--Fritz Grupe, perhaps best known as the Stockton builder of Brookside and other major projects, never planned to get into land development.
He recently recalled that as a college junior he told his father: "I want to be a farmer. I have no interest in real estate."
But after graduation and joining his dad in working the family's 250-acre spread, it soon became apparent that the ranch was too small to generate enough money.
"That wasn't enough to make a living, so I moved to town and became a real estate agent," Grupe said.
Now, nearly five decades later, the farmer leads a real estate empire that ...