How America’s Got Talent host Howie Mandel turned 2 acres of dirt into his ‘best investment’ outside showbiz

“So, I'd put a little strip mall of a gas station, a little AMPM store, a car wash, and this became — I knew that I was going to be serviced by 2,000 homes.”“I'd go see where the land was subdivided before the houses were built,” Mandel said. “I'd buy two acres of dirt that would lead into whatever the main artery into this new subdivision was — and people would say, ‘For what?’ And I'd go, ‘These are 2,000 families. Where are they going to get gas? Where are they going to buy their groceries?’”Noticing tha ...