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Article: Brooke Marston - turnagain pioneer. (real estate broker and developer)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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In his office building on Turnagain Boulevard, an old hardware store remodeled into an office, developer and real estate broker Brooke Marston reflects on over four decades of change in Anchorage. During his career, he says he has sold "thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of homes."
In 1995, Marston sold two real estate offices in Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley to Vista Real Estate. He still owns and operates a property management firm. But he remembers Anchorage as a close-knit community in the days he was developing Turnagain and other projects around town.
"Anchorage was a different place. I would go down on Fourth Avenue to do business with Dan Cuddy ...