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Gerald Hines, Houston’s Billionaire Master Builder, Dies at 95

  • His real-estate company manages $133 billion of assets
  • The firm co-developed San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower
The Lipstick Building stands in New York.Source: Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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Gerald Hines, the billionaire Texan property developer who built the Lipstick Building in Manhattan and skyscrapers that transformed Houston’s skyline in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. He was 95.

He died Sunday, according to his firm’s website.