He will be heading back upstate, however, to his native Buffalo, where he won't lack for distractions. After all, Paladino built his failed campaign on his private fortune, a development portfolio estimated at $500 million in value, covering millions of square feet in rustbelt New York and eastern Pennsylvania.

While a comprehensive examiniation of Paladino's empire would be impossible--or, at least, impossibly boring--here are the major projects, many of them controversial, that he will likely be attending to after Election Day.

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