Italian design for Oklahoma man a sign of change from within

 
Richard Mize, Real Estate Editor
Published: June 6, 2009

Ask Joe Mansour why he went with a Tuscan theme to turn around his big early-1970s apartment complex with its first real renovation ever.

First he talks about Oklahoma weather, not Italian architecture.

Rain ricocheted in sheets off the original Mansard roofs, he said of what is now Isola Bella — "beautiful island” — west of NW 63 and MacArthur, which his Accord Interests bought in fall ...


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