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Southcentral Regional Digest
September 7, 1999 Building sale signals market revivalHouston Business Journal, September 7HOUSTON – A major office building has changed hands in the Galleria area's biggest investment sale of the year. The glassy, half-circular Tractebel Building at the edge...
Cadillac Fairview Pays $20.9 Mln for Remainder of Northpark Mall
September 7, 1999 TORONTO – Cadillac Fairview (NYSE: CDF) paid $20.9 million for the 20 percent interest in the Northpark Mall in Ridgeland, Miss., that it did not already own.The 958,000-square-foot mall underwent an $8 million renovation last...
Mid-Atlantic Regional
September 7, 1999Assisted living at Gulick tract gets a final OKThe Princeton Packet, September 6 LAWRENCE, N.J. — The hotly contested conversion of the historic William Gulick House into an assisted living facility was granted an official approval...
Federal Realty In Talks to Sell Shopping Center Business, Spin-off Unit
September 7, 1999 ROCKVILLE, Md. – Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) said it is in talks to merge its portfolio of community shopping centers with an undisclosed firm in a deal that would be valued at about...
Developers Diversified Raises $75 Mln Through Preferred Offering
September 7, 1999 CLEVELAND – Developers Diversified Realty Corp. (NYSE: DDR) raised $75 million by placing perpetual preferred units in its affiliated operating partnership with an institutional investor. The preferred units pay an annual dividend of 8.875 percent...
Western Regional Digest
September 7, 1999 PricewaterhouseCoopers Signs $22 Mln Lease in Orange CountyLos Angeles Times, Sept. 7IRVINE, Calif. – PricewaterhouseCoopers has leased 69,000 square feet of space in Opus Center Irvine, a 12-story, 267,000 sf office building in Irvine. The...
Lazard Appoints 2 Real Estate Executives
September 7, 1999 Robert C. Larson, vice chairman of Taubman Centers Inc., has been named chairman of Lazard Freres & Co.'s real estate operation, while Michael G. Medzigian, a partner of Olympus Real Estate Corp., was named president...
Summit Properties Raises $55 Mln Through Sale of Preferred
September 7, 1999 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Summit Properties Inc. (NYSE: SMT) has raised $55 million by issuing, through its affiliated operating partnership, perpetual preferred units to an institutional investor.The 2.2 million Series C cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred units...
Koger Equity Sells Office Buildings to Lennar for $70 Mln
September 7, 1999 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Koger Equity Inc. (AMEX: KE) said it completed the sale of two office parks totaling 1.1 million square feet in Charlotte and Jacksonville to Lennar Partners Inc. (NYSE: LNR) for $70 million,...
Urstadt Biddle Buys Westchester, N.Y., Shopping Center
September 7, 1999 GREENWICH, Conn. – Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. (NYSE: UBP) paid $9.5 million for the 80,000-square-foot Towne Centre Shopping Center in Somers, Westchester County, N.Y.The property, anchored by a Gristede's supermarket, is 95 percent occupied. It...
Taubman Places $75 Mln of Preferred in Partnership With Investor
September 7, 1999 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Taubman Centers Inc. (NYSE:TCO) said it raised $75 million through the private placement of 9 percent cumulative preferred partnership equity in the Taubman Realty Group LP. The preferred equity was purchased...
Hudson Hotels Gets Management of Two Dallas-Area Hotels
September 7, 1999 ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Hudson Hotels Corp. (NASDAQ: HUDS) has been awarded the management contracts to the Best Western D/FW Airport Suits and the Clarion Inn and Suites D/FW North, two adjoining hotels next to the...
Post Properties Raises $70 Mln Through Placement of Preferred
September 7, 1999 ATLANTA – Post Properties Inc. (NYSE: PPS) raised $70 million through a private placement of 8 percent preferred equity securities.The securities were issued by Post Apartment Homes LP, the REIT's operating partnership. They were placed...
Hilton Buys Promus
September 7, 1999 By The Associated PressBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)- Hilton Hotels Corp., owner of New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria and other properties, will acquire Promus Hotel Corp. for $4 billion plus the assumption of debt, the hotel operator...
Mid-Atlantic Regional
September 3, 1999 Developers to propose nuke plant for electricityThe Philadelphia Inquirer, September 3 LIMERICK, Pa.-Developers proposing a 500-megawatt electricity-generating plant on a site next to Peco Energy Co.'s nuclear power plant will face a crucial step this...
Northeast Regional Digest
September 3, 1999 Home Properties buys complex near O'HareRochester Democrat and Chronicle, September 3ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Home Properties of New York Inc. made its secondacquisition in Illinois yesterday when it purchased a 783-unit apartment complex near O'Hare International...
Southeast Regional Digest
September 3, 1999 Florida company buys EFTC ServicesBusiness First of Louisville, September 3LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jabil Circuit Inc. of St. Petersburg, Florida, has completed the purchase of EFTC Services from EFTC corp. of Denver for $30 million. EFTC...
Canadian Regional Digest
September 3, 1999 Reichmann tower purchase approved The Globe and Mail, September 3TORONTO – A company headed by Philip Reichmann got the go-ahead yesterday to buy back a landmark Toronto office tower, giving his family a second chance...
Midwest Regional Digest
September 3, 1999Local businesses working on plans for new Twin Cities sports arenasMinneapolis Star Tribune, September 3MINNEAPOLIS – Quiet work continues among Twin Cities business leaders on a plan that could partially finance a new $300-million baseball park...
Wilshire REIT Leaders Lose Headquarters Offices
September 3, 1999 PORTLAND, Ore.– A Circuit Court has ruled that Andrew Wiederhorn and Lawrence Mendelsohn, chief executive and president of Wilshire REIT (NASDAQ:WREI) and Wilshire Financial Services Group (OTC:WFSG), do not have a right to continue occupying...
Asset Investors and Commercial Assets Agree to Merge
September 3, 1999 DENVER – Asset Investors Corp. (NYSE:AIC) and Commercial Assets Inc. (AMEX:CAX), two affiliated REITs that own manufactured housing communities, have agreed to merge.Under the merger, Asset Investors will issue 0.4075 shares of its common stock...
Airplane Crashes into Florida Strip Mall
September 3, 1999 By Karen Testa, Associated Press Writer WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - An air ambulance trying to make an emergency landing in the dark early Friday, but crashed about a half-mile short of the runway...
BUILD NOW Seminars Tip Off Developers
September 3, 1999 By The Associated PressALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Governor's Office of Regulatory Reform (GORR) (http://www.gorr.state.ny.us) will host a series of four seminars statewide to inform economic development agencies and site owners of the opportunities available...
Asian Market Highlights
September 3, 1999By The Associated PressMINOR CORPORATION PLC has taken 15 percent in a new joint-venture firm Thana Mondzee Co Ltd, a property developer. The company has spent Bt300,000 for the investment. The source of the funds was...
Western Regional Digest
September 3, 1999 Scottsdale developers refuse to release consultant reportArizona Republic, September 3SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.– Four days before local residents here are scheduled to vote on whether to approve the will vote to approve the $653 million Canals of...
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