The 15-acre holding is located in Montgomery, a suburb north of Houston. The former Westland Oil Building, now called Westlin Building, is a piece of local history. The fortress-complex was built in the 1980s by Ling-Chieh "Louis" Kung, a wealthy Houston oil tycoon and nephew of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Kung, said to be a direct descendent of Confucius, came to the United States after attending England's Sandhurst Military Academy and serving as a major during World War II.

Gary Goff of Curtis Development in Montgomery tells GlobeSt.com that he has letters of intent for more than 50% of the complex, but is still keeping open the option to sell the holding to a user for a corporate campus after the renovation is complete in third quarter 2002. Goff estimates the property's value at $20 million.

Kung was a Chinese diplomat in Washington, DC and later moved to Houston. In 1961, he founded the Westland Oil Development Corp. In the early 1980s, he relocated the operation to Montgomery and set about building the office complex.

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