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      "text": "HHC Would Remain Unchanged and Would Be Managed by the Current Team. The Howard Hughes Corporation Master Planned Communities (“MPC”) historical line of business would remain entirely unchanged. HHC would continue to pursue its long-term strategic objectives and would be managed by the current senior leadership team led by David O’Reilly as CEO.",
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      "text": "Post Merger Howard Hughes Holdings Business Plan and Operations. While HHC would remain unchanged, HHH, the holding company to HHC, would become a diversified holding company. As a result, we would expect that HHH and its HHC subsidiary would operate largely independently with oversight from the HHH board and its new senior leadership team. With apologies to Mr. Buffett, HHH would become a modern-day Berkshire Hathaway that would acquire controlling interests in operating companies.",
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