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Article: One man's crazy! dream: despite the naysayers, one family turned 325 neglected acres into a haven for families and Texas tech students.
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The good people of Lubbock, Texas, came to a unanimous conclusion in 1999: Delbert McDougal had gone crazy. The former General Electric salesman announced at a press conference that he--and the rest of McDougal Cos.--intended to completely renovate the 325 acres that made up North Overton, a section of Lubbock west of downtown and immediately east of Texas Tech University. And not only was McDougal going to renovate, but he was going to do it without any help from the government.
"There was an uproar," Delbert said. "They couldn't believe that I was going to, as they said, risk my family's assets when this project was an obvious failure." Delbert smiled at the ...