Word: galston
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...develop 11,000 acres on Hilton Head Island, a coastal oasis for well-to-do retired executives, who hotly opposed the B.A.S.F. plan. Fred Hack, president of the Hilton Head Co., asked the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to draw up a suitable land plan. What Planner John Galston of S.O.M. suggested is a regional plan to develop indigenous industry (fishing, farming, wood products), a step that he feels will create the greatest economic growth. As Galston sees it, "an artificially created economy" like B.A.S.F. would actually remove 4,000 to 9,000 local jobs. "Though it would probably...