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Forest City Enterprises Notice of Second-Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call (PR News Wire )

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 GMT

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...

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Ivanka Trump’s View From the Top (No Land Grab)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:00:36 GMT

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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Forest City firm on price for convention center site (No Land Grab)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:55:48 GMT

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...

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Forest City, CBRE Feeling Effects of Wobbly Economy (No Land Grab)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:29:41 GMT

The NY Observer by Dana Rubinstein In the worsening economic downturn, some real estate investment trusts and brokerages are showing signs of weakness. On Jan. 2, stocks of Forest City Ratner parent Forest City Enterprises traded at $43.62 a share. On Aug. 4, they traded for nearly half the price, at $25.60. article

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Partnership expected to recommend location for convention center, medical mart (No Land Grab)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:47:16 GMT

Cleveland Plain Dealer By Sarah Hollander CIeveland is about to strike a deal with Forest City Enterprises for a new convention center to be built on land owned by and next to other holdings of the development company, because everyone knows that building another convention center will really pay off for taxpayers in the long run. Business leaders appear to be cobbling together alternative...

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Forest City, CBRE Feeling Effects of Wobbly Economy (The New York Observer)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:36:41 GMT

In the worsening economic downturn, some real estate investment trusts and brokerages are showing signs of weakness. On Jan. 2, stocks of Forest City Ratner parent Forest City Enterprises traded at $43.62 a share. On Aug. 4, they traded for nearly half the price, at $25.60. Leading office landlord SL Green , which started the year at $92.56 a share, was trading at $79.67 by Aug. 4. Meanwhile,...

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Gottschalks Signs Purchase Agreement With Forest City Enterprises to Sell Palmdale, California Store (PR News Wire )

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT

FRESNO, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gottschalks Inc. (NYSE: ) today announced that the Company has entered into a purchase agreement to sell its wholly-owned store in the Antelope Valley Mall in Palmdale, California, to Forest City Enterprises, a Cleveland, Ohio-based real estate management and development company. The Company currently leases a second store within the same mall...

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Historic preservation, theory and practice (No Land Grab)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:23:34 GMT

Atlantic Yards Report responds to a NoLandGrab post : No Land Grab points out the irony of Forest City Ratner sponsoring an AIANY (American Institute of Architects-New York) panel on historic preservation. I'll remind people that parent Forest City Enterprises embraces historic preservation , just not in Brooklyn. NoLandGrab: Call it irony or hypocricy, it explains why no amount of positive...

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Net Losses Mounted Last Quarter (No Land Grab)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:52:32 GMT

Nets Daily The everything-Nets blog cites a report from Sports Business Journal about the latest lop-sided Nets loss and it wasn't on the hardwood. The Nets lost $7.2 million last quarter, more than double last year’s total, according to new filings by Forest City Enterprises. FCE is Bruce Ratner’s corporate parent and the team’s leading investor. It holds a 21 percent stake in the team but...

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Does Beekman “blackmail” presage AY subsidy push? (No Land Grab)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:21:52 GMT

Atlantic Yards Report Even though Forest City Enterprises CEO and Bruce Ratner's cousin Chuck Ratner declared to investors, "We still need more” subsidies for Atlantic Yards, you don't really think that the Ratners would actually threaten and blackmail local government officials to make sure they got his way? Once upon a time, "'Bruce Ratner said that the project "will be almost exclusively...

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PRESS RELEASE: Forest City Enterprises Announces Recent Financings (No Land Grab)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:13:55 GMT

The Earth Times CLEVELAND, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest City Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: FCEA) (NYSE: FCEB) today announced three recent financing transactions, totaling more than $100 million, in the Company's national portfolio of operating properties and in its development pipeline. "These transactions, all of which closed within the past 30 days, reflect our continuing ability...

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Forest City Enterprises Announces Recent Financings (News & Information)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:55:00 GMT

CLEVELAND, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Forest City Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: FCEA) (NYSE: FCEB) today announced three recent financing transactions, totaling more……Read more

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Nets still tanking (No Land Grab)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:30:11 GMT

The Brooklyn Paper By Sarah Portlock The New Jersey Nets are losing even more money — adding yet another wrinkle in the team’s plans to relocate to Brooklyn. Despite a promise to bring the Nets here, Forest City Enterprises, which partly owns the team, admitted this month that the squad has lost $10.2 million more this year than at this point last year. The company reported an $18.5-million...

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Was that FCE's Chuck Ratner at the "Brooklyn Day" rally? (Atlantic Yards Report)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:15:00 GMT

Though Forest City Ratner head Bruce Ratner was nowhere in evidence at the "Brooklyn Day" rally at Borough Hall yesterday, his cousin Chuck Ratner--or someone who looks very much like him--was in attendance. Chuck Ratner is the president and CEO of Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises (FCE), parent of Forest City Ratner. He's notable for saying that "we still need more" subsidies and offering...

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Construction at Capitol Quarter Begins (DCmud - The Metro Urban Diary)

Fri, 30 May 2008 21:28:00 GMT

With a financing package that settled today, construction of the 33-acre Capitol Quarter in Southeast is now set to begin. Spurred by a Hope VI grant from HUD in 2001 that has been leveraged from $34.9 million to $700 million, the DC Housing Authority is partnering with Forest City Enterprises, Mid-City Urban, and EYA Associates, Inc. to create Capitol Quarter on the site of the now-demolished...

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Q4 2007 Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Earnings Conference Call - Final (No Land Grab)

Fri, 30 May 2008 18:45:13 GMT

InsuranceNewsNet.com InsuranceNewsNet has the entire transcript of Forest City Enterprises's 4th Quarter 2007 earnings call posted on its web site. Use the search function to dig up references to Atlantic Yards, including the company's latest favorite lie : that it's 18-0 in Atlantic Yards-related legal decisions. JOANNE MINIERI, PRESIDENT, FOREST CITY RATNER COMPANIES: Thanks, Chuck. We and...

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Condo sales slumping, cities offer incentives (No Land Grab)

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:04:29 GMT

AP , via WTOL11 (Cleveland) Slumping sales are forcing Cleveland area condo developers to offer free washers, dryers and even cars to lure buyers. ... Forest City Enterprises recently re-launched condo sales with a 5 percent discount, plus a free washer and dryer. The empty condos hurt the city's tax base and drive down property values. article NoLandGrab: What will be the result of Forest...

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The FCE annual report looks like the NYT Magazine (No Land Grab)

Sun, 25 May 2008 13:56:07 GMT

The cover of the Forest City Enterprises (FCE) annual report, featuring the highly-successful New York Times Tower, jointly developed by FCE subsidiary Forest City Ratner with the New York Times Company, not only uses the typeface from the New York Times Magazine but also is printed on paper of similar dimensions and heft, as opposed to the narrower dimensions of previous reports. If anyone...
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The FCE annual report looks like the NYT Magazine (Atlantic Yards Report)

Sun, 25 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT

The cover of the Forest City Enterprises (FCE) annual report, featuring the highly-successful New York Times Tower, jointly developed by FCE subsidiary Forest City Ratner with the New York Times Company, not only uses the typeface from the New York Times Magazine but also is printed on paper of similar dimensions and heft, as opposed to the narrower dimensions of previous reports. If anyone...
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SAY WHAT CHUCK?? (No Land Grab)

Tue, 20 May 2008 09:10:06 GMT

Though a Forest City September 2005 earnings conference call hardly seems like breaking news, Norman Oder reported yesterday that Forest City Enterprises CEO Charles Ratner told investors that they had been eyeing the Atlantic Yards project. Chuck Ratner, CEO of FCE, said: I will confess that it was less than two or three years ago we were sitting around in New York wondering where the next...
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