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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

September 3, 1999 CHICAGO – Horizon Group Properties Inc. (NASDAQ:HGPI) completed the transfer of its nearly 50 percent interest in the Bellport Outlet Center in Bellport, N.Y., to Prime Retail Inc. (NYSE:PRT).Horizon received $7.5 million in cash and...

September 2, 1999 CHICAGO – Great Lakes REIT (NYSE:GL) sold 565 Lakeview Parkway in Vernon Hills, Ill., for $8.8 million and expects to invest the sale proceeds in another building of similar value as part of a tax-deferred...

September 2, 1999 By The Associated PressNEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Newport News Shipbuilding will lay off 450 hourly workers beginning this month. The company made the announcement in a letter distributed to employees at the shipyard Thursday...

September 2, 1999 By Indraneel Sur, Associated Press Writer BALTIMORE (AP) - Preston Trucking Co. is seeking bankruptcy court approval to begin selling property and equipment to pay off $92 million owed to creditors. The company will ask...

September 2, 1999NEW YORK – Clarion Partners has hired William K. Krauch, vice chairman of CB Richard Ellis Investors, as managing director responsible for client relations and marketing.Krauch, who was with CB Richard Ellis Investors, formerly Westmark Realty...

September 2, 1999 Stew Leonard's and other stores set for YonkersNew York Times, September 2YONKERS, N.Y. – A shopping center that includes two mega-retailers and the first New York store of the Stew Leonard's supermarket chain is to...

September 2, 1999G.L. Homes leads land rush west of DelraySouth Florida Business Journal, September 2DELRAY BEACH, Fla.– G.L. Homes is becoming one of the hungriest home builders grazing for land in the Agricultural Reserve, South Palm Beach County's...

September 2, 1999Angelos to acquire two towersThe Baltimore Sun, September 2BALTIMORE – Furthering his efforts to rehabilitate downtown's traditionally defined central business district, Peter G. Angelos is preparing to buy two downtown office buildings for a combined $12.4...

September 2, 1999Daley, trustees give campus expansion plan a push forwardChicago Sun Times, September 2CHICAGO – Plans have advanced to redevelop Maxwell Street as part of the University of Illinois at Chicago's south campus.Mayor Daley and the school's...

September 2, 1999 Denver developer buys bank building for $23 Mln Denver Rocky Mountain News, September 2 DENVER – Donald Sturm, the developer who also is buying the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche sports teams, as well as...

September 2, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO – Prudential Mortgage Capital Co., a unit of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, provided $62 million of 10-year mortgage financing to ProLogis Trust (NYSE:PLD) and the New York State Common Retirement Fund.The...

September 2, 1999 ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Home Properties (NYSE:HME) paid $41.8 million for the Colony Apartments, a 783-unit apartment complex in Mount Prospect, a suburb of Chicago.Home paid cash and assumed a $16.3 million mortgage that carries a...

September 2, 1999 MIAMI – Atlantic Gulf Communities Corp. (OTC:AGLF) has named Richard Ackerman, the former president of Crocker Realty Trust, as chief executive.Ackerman, who will oversee the restructuring of Atlantic Gulf, replaces Larry Rutherford, who stepped down...

September 2, 1999 LOS ANGELES – CB Richard Ellis (NYSE:CBG) said its board has authorized the repurchase of up to $5 million of its common shares.Ray Wirta, chief executive officer of the firm, said, "It is our belief...

September 1, 1999City begins bid on 5,000 acres on SouthsideFlorida Times-Union, August 31JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville has begun talks with a major Southside landowner to buy and take 5,000 acres of land out of development...

By Associated PressNEW HAMPTON, Iowa (AP) - Sara Lee has put its plant here up for sale at a price of $25 million, but that could drop as low as $15 million if there's no sale by the...

September 1, 1999From counting marble to rebuilding an empireToronto Star, September 1TORONTO – Philip Reichmann, whose father built First Canadian Place—one of the country's largest office buildings—and then lost it during an economic landslide in the early 1990s,...

September 1, 1999 BOSTON – Boston Properties Inc. (NYSE:BXP) paid $117.6 million for two office buildings and two development sites at the Gateway Commercial Center in South San Francisco.The REIT is buying 601 and 651 Gateway Boulevard, which...

September 1, 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. – CarrAmerica Realty Corp. (NYSE:CRE) signed a 145,000-square-foot lease expansion with Janus Capital Corp. at Riata Corporate Park in Austin, Texas.As a result of the expansion, Janus will occupy 200,000 sf at the...