Biography
Joel Farkas founded Fruition Communities, a vertically integrated real estate, energy, infrastructure, and resource development company based in Denver, Colorado. While development activities have been conducted through various independent investment entities such as partnerships and limited liability companies, Mr. Farkas, Fruition Communities and various investment entities have been continuously active in exploration & production in the oil and gas industry, development of residential & mixed-use master planned communities, regional retail shopping centers, mobile home park operation and development, water rights acquisitions, water delivery to oil & gas drilling operations and regional municipal utility systems since 1984.
Awards
Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
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