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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
By Tackett, Megan Jon Rather is leading the charge for Forest City Enterprises to focus on its ecological impact. It all started in Denver in 2004.
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Cleveland Scene By James Renner Over and over again, Forest City Enterprises's blatant backroom dealing demonstrates that the company is untouchable and that no one of any importance or power really cares when the tax payers get ripped off. Here's more proof from the company's hometown of Cleveland: Last week, we learned that the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer Board paid Sunrise Development $1.55 million...
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The Washington Business Journal (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Despite a virtually frozen credit market, Forest City Enterprises Inc. announced Tuesday that it closed on $250 million in construction financing for the initial phase of its Waterfront Station project in Southwest D.C. (FCEA) (FCEB)
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
CLEVELAND, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest City Enterprises, Inc. announced today that it has closed on $250 million in construction financing for the initial phase of its Waterfront Station project in Southwest Washington, D.C.
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review by Jeremy Boren The wait for a second hotel attached to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center is about to get longer. The city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority is ending its long-running negotiations with hotel operator Forest City Enterprises over the building of a hotel that would boost the number of rooms near the convention center beyond 1,000 -- the magic number...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Atlantic Yards Report Norman Oder reports on yesterday's investor conference call with Forest City Enterprises executives ( transcript here ): Chuck Ratner, President and CEO of Forest City Enterprises (FCE), parent of Forest City Ratner, didn't tell investment analysts yesterday anything as arresting as his claim last March that "we still need more" subsidies or his March 2007 acknowledgement that...
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NetsDaily Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Charles Ratner, President, Forest City Enterprises: “Let me begin with an update on Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, our largest pipeline project. Overall, the project continues to move forward. During the first half we received a favorable legal ruling when the US Supreme Court decided not to hear an eminent domain appeal brought by project components. There [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Company Expects to Record Pre-Tax Gain of Approximately $8.7 Million
FRESNO, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gottschalks Inc.
(NYSE: ) today announced that the Company completed the sale of its
wholly-owned store in the Antelope Valley Mall in Palmdale, California, to
Forest City Enterprises, the owner of the shopping center on September 5,
2008. Gottschalks plans to use proceeds from the...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
CLEVELAND, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest City Enterprises,
Inc., (NYSE: and FCEB) has released its second-quarter 2008 financial
results and will hold a conference call on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at
11:00 a.m. ET to discuss these results. Investors are invited to dial into
the conference call hosted by Charles A. Ratner, president and chief
executive officer.
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The conference...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Atlantic Yards Report Four members of the Ratner family, as well as the Forest City Enterprises Political Action Committee, have contributed a total of $12,300 to the re-election campaign of 10th District Congressional Rep. Ed Towns, an Atlantic Yards supporter facing a forceful if underfunded challenge from writer and activist Kevin Powell. This continues a pattern of Forest City Ratner/Enterprises...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Two days ago, we noted a Cleveland Plain Dealer article that Forest City Enterprises, the parent company of Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner, was in a pickle after an appeals court upheld the "gold-clause" on the lease for the land under the Halle building in Cleveland. If pegged to the current value of gold, the $35,000/year lease could skyrocket to $1.4 million. Yesterday, Brownstoner...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
CLEVELAND, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest City Enterprises,
Inc., (NYSE: and FCEB) will release its second-quarter 2008 financial
results on Thursday, September 4, 2008 and will hold a conference call on
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss these results.
Investors are invited to dial into the conference call hosted by Charles A.
Ratner, president and chief executive officer.
...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
NY Post, Page Six Magazine By Joshua David Stein Bruce Ratner is mentioned in a profile of his most famous apprentice: Since graduating from Wharton in 2004 and entering the real estate business (before joining up with her dad, she worked for developer Bruce Ratner’s Forest City Enterprises as a tenant coordinator for a year), Ivanka has traveled largely unscathed through the gauntlet of tabloids—though...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The Cleveland Plain Dealer By Joe Guillen Forest City Enterprises executives said they will not drastically cut their $40 million asking price for land at Tower City to pave the way for a medical mart and convention center. The company has already agreed to concessions for the project, including a low-cost 20-year lease of the Higbee Building for the medical mart and a convention center redesign to...