The open-ended campaign has raised $164,000 toward the $3.3 million real estate project.

Banks used to lend the full amount of a real estate project, or even more.

The trade center is more than an office building or a real estate project.

"Several people have asked to put up money to do five or six at a time," he said of his real estate projects.

In 2000, dozens of commercial real estate projects also appeared.

The church has used a similar strategy when other real estate projects have run into conflicts.

During the late 1970s, he focused on developing real estate projects.

Since, then it is running its construction and real estate projects.

This time, he concentrated on large commercial real estate projects.

"The good news for them about my business history is that the average real estate project takes seven years" to turn a profit.