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Article: Eskimos melting into Dade's pot. (Cook Inlet Region Inc. to build Florida business park)
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- Florida Trend
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- May 1, 1990
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Forget the igloo jokes. This group of Eskimos is serious about its investment in west Dade County.
Cook Inlet Region Inc., an Anchorage, Alaska-based firm composed of about 6,500 Eskimos, Aleutians and American Indians, has already sunk about $14.5 million into developing a 75-acre business park south of Doral Country Club.
The company, which may well be the first Eskimo-dominated firm to develop property in Florida, bought the parcel from the federal government for $12.5 million at a 1988 auction. To purchase the property, Cook Inlet used credits awarded from a ...