The Hart Closet project, installed more than 3,000 closets in its pilot sites located in California, Washington, Colorado and British Columbia. With assistance and investments from companies such as A G Spanos Construction, Accurate Plastics, Akins Development, A-M Homes, AquaGlass, Atherton-Kirk, BF Goodrich, Bren Homes, Callison Architects, Ceel-Co, Centex, Design House, DesignHaus, Fieldstone, Firestone, GE Plastics, Georgia Gulf, Gulf Plastics, HessCo, Isorca, JayBerg, JM Peters, Johns-Manville, Kaufman-Broad, Masco, Monsanto, Owens Corning, OxyChem, Pacific Scene, Pardee, Pneuman Engineering, Pointe Builders, Presley Homes, Product Design Center, Pulte Development, Quadrant, Rockwell, Sunrise, Tishman Speyer, Trojan Builders, Velcro, Weyerhaeuser, William Lyon and many other companies, the Hart Closet project advanced its Intellectual Property far beyond its original Patent and related Intellectual Properties.
Significant people who aided in the advancement of the R&D of the Hart Closet project were Al Bek, Ali Shnier, Bagley Wright, Bea Johnson, Ben Wosk, Bill Botham, Bill Crane, Bill Gates, Bill Spaner, Bill Tarabas, Bob Heyman, Bob Reid, Carsten Mide, Chad Mooney, Dave Funes, David Bentall, Don Forte, Don Steinle, Dorothy Englehart, Doug Brown, Doug Muir, Ed Belzberg, Ed Dominick, Eli Broad, Fraser Cowie, Fred Pneuman, Gary Segal, Gordon Heichert, Gwen Pneuman, Herman Sarkowsky, Hugh Billings, Jack Benaroya, Jack Grimm, James Richardson, Jim Bower, Jim Pirtle, Joan Kroc, John Blasingame, John Malcolm, John Nosse, John Roach, Ken Telford, Larry Tisch, Leo Mide, Martin Bergen, Martin Selig, Max Goldpin, Merrill Butler, Morris Wosk, Nels Henry, Olaf Arneson, Paul Rittenhouse, Ritsu Goto, Ron Mathewson, Sam LeFrak, Sidney Zack, Steve Hess, Steve Phipps, T Boone Pickens, Ted Turton, Tom Gropp, Tom Prevette, Tony Cassolato, Trammell Crow, Vern Sparks, William Lyon and many others not mentioned here.
My very sincere thanks goes out to all of the above, as I could not have advanced my invention without them and their specific important support and contributions. My sincere appreciation goes out to my many friends and family members who believed in me, my inventions and placed their investments into my Hart Closet project to move it through its various R&D stages.
Below is a video of a San Diego, California R&D pilot installation for the Kaufman & Broad Co.
