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Duke-Weeks Promotes 2 in Central Florida Reorganization
September 9, 1999 By Paul Gereffi, VertiNews.com CorrespondentDuke-Weeks Realty Corp., (NYSE: DRE) a REIT created earlier this year through the combination of Weeks Realty Corp. of Atlanta and Duke Realty Corp. of Indianapolis, has reorganized its Central Florida...
Southeast Regional Digest
September 9, 1999Highwoods to develop office towerThe News & Observer, September 9RALEIGH, N.C. – Highwoods Properties, the Triangle's largest office landlord, plans to develop a seven-story tower with 160,000 square feet of space and a four-level parking deck...
Pan Pacific Retail Sets $0.40/shr Div
September 9, 1999 SAN DIEGO – Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc. (NYSE:PNP) today reported its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.40 per share, payable October 22, 1999, to the shareholders of record September 24,...
Apex Mortgage Capital Sets $0.46/shr Div, Changes Hedging Strategy
September 8, 1999LOS ANGELES – Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: AXM) has set a third-quarter dividend of 46 cents/share payable Oct. 15 to shareholders of record Sept. 30. The dividend is 70 percent higher than the one paid...
Essex Property Trust Buys Newport Beach, Calif., Apartments for $62 Mln
September 8, 1999 PALO ALTO, Calif. – Essex Property Trust Inc. (NYSE: ESS) paid $62 million, or $84,700/unit, for Coronado at Newport, a 732-unit apartment complex in Newport Beach, Calif.Essex is evaluating forming a joint venture with another...
Apex Mortgage One-Ups Amresco in Bid for Impac Commercial, Offers $78 Mln
September 8, 1999LOS ANGELES – Apex Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: AXM) has offered to acquire Impac Commercial Holdings Inc. (AMEX: ICH) in a stock swap that values Impac at $78 million, or $7.09/share.Each Impac share would be swapped...
Wilshire Fires Two Top Execs
September 8, 1999 By Hans Greimel, Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The whiz-kid founder of Wilshire Financial Services Group and his number two executive have been fired by the company's board in a disagreement over how...
Grubb & Ellis Names Kelley Corporate Services Group Director
September 8, 1999NORTHBROOK, Ill. – Grubb & Ellis Co. (NYSE: GBE) has named J.D. Kelley national director of strategic services and director of its corporate services group, which is based in Dallas.Kelley was formerly executive managing director of...
Spieker To Develop 16-story Office Tower In Emeryville, Cal.
September 8, 1999MENLO PARK, Calif. – Spieker Properties Inc. (NYSE: SPK) intends to start construction on a 16-story, 330,000 square foot office tower at its Watergate Office Towers complex in Emeryville, Calif. by the end of this year....
Lerner Brings Recently Built Building up to 98% Occupied
September 8, 1999MCLEAN, Va. – Lerner Enterprises said it has signed leases with seven tenants for 73,400 square feet at 1750 Tysons Boulevard, an office building that is nearing completion in McLean, Va.Lerner, which is based in North...
Essex Raises $55 Mln Through Sale of Preferred
September 8, 1999 PALO ALTO, Calif. – Essex Property Trust, Inc., (NYSE: ESS) has raised $55 million by issuing, to an institutional investor, 2.2 million preferred units in its affiliated operating partnership.The preferred, 9.25% Series E Cumulative Redeemable...
Wellsford/Whitehall Pays $27 Mln for Properties, Sells Other for $26 Mln
September 8, 1999 NEW YORK – Wellsford Real Properties Inc. (AMEX: WRP) said an affiliate it operates with Goldman Sachs' (NYSE: GS) Whitehall Street Real Estate Fund paid $27 million for four office buildings with 221,000 square feet...
E-Business and Corporate Real Estate: Opportunity or Threat?, Commentary by Rachel Sinden and Trevor
September 8, 1999By Rachel Sinden, Principal Consultant, and Trevor Miles, Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, London(Excerpted from the Fall 1999 edition of Global Real Estate Now, to be distributed later this month.)E-business is already transforming the business landscape for many...
Southeast Regional Digest
September 8, 1999 Two men making moves for Daytona Beach hotelsDaytona Beach News-Journal, September 8DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A pair of investors have bought four of Daytona Beach's major hotels and are negotiating for a fifth. It's all...
Bradley Real Estate Raises $25 Mln Through Preferred Offering
September 8, 1999 NORTHBROOK, Ill. – Bradley Real Estate Inc.'s (NYSE: BTR) affiliated operating partnership has placed $25 million of 8.875 percent series C cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred with an institutional investor.The units are callable after five years,...
Canadian Regional Digest
September 8, 1999 Summit finally gets hostile in Avista bidThe National Post, September 8 TORONTO – As expected, Summit Real Estate Investment Trust has made a hostile bid for Avista REIT. However, Avista's board of trustees has already...
Kennedy-Wilson Named Leasing Agent for Big Complex, Opens Vegas Office
September 8, 1999 LAS VEGAS – A unit of Kennedy-Wilson Inc. (NASDAQ: KWIC) has been hired by Pacific Properties and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance to manage and lease the Pacific Business Center, a 676,000-square-foot industrial complex that was...
Associated Estates Sells Calif. Apartment Complex for $17.1 Mln
September 8, 1999 CLEVELAND – Associated Estates Realty Corp. (NYSE: AEC) has sold the Desert Oasis Apartments for $17.1 million or nearly $53,500/unit.The sales price gives the buyer a capitalization rate of 7.6 percent based on this years...
Northeast Regional Digest
September 7, 1999 A developer reshapes a Brighton Beach project New York Times, September 5BRIGHTON BEACH, N.Y. – Developer Joshua L. Muss is a man of patience who is waiting for the magic formula of permits and financing...
Chelsea GCA Raises $65 Mln Through Preferred Offering
September 7, 1999ROSELAND, N.J. – Chelsea GCA Realty Inc. (NYSE: CCG) said its affiliated operating partnership, Chelsea GCA Realty Partnership LP, has raised $65 million by privately placing series B cumulative redeemable preferred units with one institutional investor.The...
Southeast Regional Digest
September 7, 1999Starmount, Lindbrook plan medical buildingsThe Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area, September 7GREENSBORO, N.C. – Starmount Co. is entering the medical office realm with a 50,000-square-foot building for Moses Cone Health System, while market veteran...
Midwest Regional Digest
September 7, 1999 Soaring real estate values trigger cuts in Metro tax billsThe Detroit News , September 7DETROIT – Real estate values are steadily inclining around Metro Detroit and a state law is forcing property taxes to roll...
REALCO Announces Acquisitions
September 7, 1999 By The Associated PressALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – REALCO, Inc. (Nasdaq: RLCO) has acquired TI Construction, a multi-state commercial construction company located in Albuquerque. Amity Inc., a wholly owned commercial construction subsidiary of Realco, acquired the name,...
Canadian Regional Digest
September 7, 1999 Summit mulls making a hostile bid for AvistaThe National Post, September 7 TORONTO – Summit Real Estate Investment Trust's board of trustees will decide today whether to launch a hostile bid for Avista REIT. The...
Jeffrey M. Brown Associates Names New CFO, VP
September 7, 1999 NEW YORK – The construction management and development firm Jeffrey M. Brown Associates Inc. has named Edward Opall as its new chief financial officer, and hired Hector Batista as vice president of corporate affairs.Opall is...
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