1.   But Philip Anschutz, a billionaire developer, had proposed building a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles, with financial support from the city.

2.   Donald Bren is now a billionaire real estate developer as owner of the Irvine Co. in Orange County, outside of Los Angeles.

3.   He is Li Ka-shing, the billionaire developer and chairman of the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.

4.   The billionaire developer fears that a casino in the Catskills would siphon business away from Atlantic City, N.J., where he owns three hotels.

5.   The collapse of the real estate empire headed by billionaire developer Juergen Schneider last year cost Deutsche Bank heavily.

6.   Thus ends a lengthy flirtation with the notion that the billionaire real estate developer could tap his fortune to capture the White House as a third-party candidate.