[3] McAnsh originally worked in the haberdashery industry before later moving onto the grocery and restaurant businesses.
He would become active politically serving in the Chicago city assessor's office and would serve as a staff member to Illinois Governor John Riley Tanner.
[1] He then start to become active in furniture manufacturing opening factories in several states including: Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina.
[1] After moving to Sarasota (where he was given a hero's welcome)[4] from Chicago in 1922, McAnsh founded the Mira Mar Corporation and began developing the Mira Mar Apartments (which took less than sixty days to build).
McAnsh struck a deal with the Sarasota civic authorities and arranged for the hotel, apartments and casino to be supplied with free power and water, as well as exemption from property taxes, for the first ten years of its existence.