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Harry Joe Brown Jr., 71, Innovative Developer, Dies

By Douglas Martin, for New York Times
Nov. 28, 2005

Harry Joe Brown Jr., a real estate executive whose birth into Hollywood royalty presaged the pizazz he generated by enlisting 34 leading architects to design one house each for a Hamptons residential development, died on Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 71.

The cause was complications of prostate cancer, his family said in a statement. Mr. Brown also had a home in West Palm Beach.

In the mid-1990’s, Mr. Brown acquired 56 acres of scrub land in the hamlet of Sagaponack for $1.6 million when another developer went bankrupt. It was supposedly on the wrong side of the Hamptons’ main road, too far from the beach and too close to East Hampton Airport.

Mr. Brown, widely known by his nickname “Coco,” persuaded the architect Richard Meier to recruit a roster of top architects. Mr. Brown’s idea was that people with a certain