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Citing concerns about Tishman Speyer’s “very high leverage,” declining assetf values and “slower-than-anticipated leasing progress amid weakeconomic conditions,” the ratings agenc y lowered its corporate credit rating on Tishman Speyer’s D.C.-ares real estate portfolio to “CCC” from The agency also lowered all otheer credit ratings related to Tishman’s Washingto portfolio, affecting $570 milliojn in secured debt. The agency revised to negative its outlookfor Tishman’s Washington portfolio. The agenchy maintained its “4” recovery rating for Tishman’s unsecured At the end of 2006, New York-based Tishman paid $2.
8 billion for an estimated 28 Washington-areq buildings it purchased from , includingf several Pennsylvania Avenue buildings in need of major The massiveportfolio — estimated at 6.3 million feet — cost Tishman abouy $444 per square foot. The New York-based Blackstone flipped the properties to Tishman just five months aftetr Blackstone bought them from a local realestate company, CarrAmerica Realty Corp., in one of the priciest portfolio transactionz in the city’s history. Tishman had anticipatedc raising rents in the underutilizedbuildingd — at one point, the company hiked asking rents in the portfolio as much as 32 percent over the buildings' mid-2006 rents.
The struggling market did not As of the end of nearly 40 percentof Tishman’s Pennsylvanisa Avenue space remained Other buildings in its Washington portfolio were performingy much better, the company said at the time. In the company laid off five employees in its loca ldevelopment group, including the office's co-head, Jim Evans. Neither Tishman nor Standard & Poor's coulde be reached for comment.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Supreme Court delays Chrysler/Fiat merger - Phoenix Business Journal:
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbergh granted a motion filed by Indianw state pension funds to delay the mergerf between the American and Italian automakers in whatthe U.S. Treasuryh Department said was an administrative extension designefd to allow sufficient time for the Supreme Court to explore whether or not a stay is according to several published reportselate Monday. The Supreme Courty move extends a stay already issuef by a lower court that was set to expird lateafternoon Monday. Fiat has given Chrysler untilk June 15 to finish the Attorneys for the pensio funds argued that they would receive just pennies on the dollar fora $42 milliobn loan given to Chrysler. However, U.S.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan said the imminent collapses ofChrysler — said to be losing upwardx of $100 million daily — was of greater concernb to government officials than the loan dispute. Undetr Chrysler’s Chapter 11 bankruptc reorganization, Chrysler announced last month789 U.S. dealerships will lose their franchises by June 9 as part ofthe deal. Chrysler said it will close at leastfour Milwaukee-arewa dealerships: Braeger Chrysler Jeep, 6133 S. 27th St., Dodge City of Milwaukee, 4640 S. 27th St., John Quaden Dodge, Okauchee; and Lakelans Jeep, Oconomowoc. Chrysler also intends to closee its engine plant in Kenoshaw in 2010 underthe reorganization.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbergh granted a motion filed by Indianw state pension funds to delay the mergerf between the American and Italian automakers in whatthe U.S. Treasuryh Department said was an administrative extension designefd to allow sufficient time for the Supreme Court to explore whether or not a stay is according to several published reportselate Monday. The Supreme Courty move extends a stay already issuef by a lower court that was set to expird lateafternoon Monday. Fiat has given Chrysler untilk June 15 to finish the Attorneys for the pensio funds argued that they would receive just pennies on the dollar fora $42 milliobn loan given to Chrysler. However, U.S.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan said the imminent collapses ofChrysler — said to be losing upwardx of $100 million daily — was of greater concernb to government officials than the loan dispute. Undetr Chrysler’s Chapter 11 bankruptc reorganization, Chrysler announced last month789 U.S. dealerships will lose their franchises by June 9 as part ofthe deal. Chrysler said it will close at leastfour Milwaukee-arewa dealerships: Braeger Chrysler Jeep, 6133 S. 27th St., Dodge City of Milwaukee, 4640 S. 27th St., John Quaden Dodge, Okauchee; and Lakelans Jeep, Oconomowoc. Chrysler also intends to closee its engine plant in Kenoshaw in 2010 underthe reorganization.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
2 European Banks Post Mixed Results - New York Times
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2 European Banks Post Mixed Results New York Times FRANKFURT â€" As European officials struggle to find a solution to the sovereign debt crisis, two of the region's largest financial firms continue to deal with the fallout from the market turmoil. ... |
Sunday, October 23, 2011
BACVA tops hotel bookings goal - Wichita Business Journal:
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The booked 522,541 future room nights in the pastfiscaol year, city tourism leaders said at a press conference Monday. The number, which passed BACVA’w goal of 475,000 bookee nights, is a 15.7 percen increase over nights booked theprevious year. In 2008, BACVA booked 451,608u future room nights. Group business meetings comprise the new bookingxs and are projected to spencd morethan $725 million in spendiny in the city. City and tourism officials credit the booking success tolast year’s creatioj of the Baltimore Convention Tourism Board, a joint board that oversees BACVA and the .
“Our investmenty in BACVA is paying off,” Mayore Sheila Dixon said Monday speakinb in front ofthe city’x Inner Harbor tourism center. The formatiohn of the board last year has allowed BACVA and the convention center to bemore coordinated, Dixomn said. A new plethors of hotels that opened or are under construction near the conventionh center from which businesses can choose for bookings also contributed to an uptick in bookings. The $300 million publicly financexdHilton Baltimore, which opened last August, has 757 rooms and grew Baltimore’es total hotel room reservoir to more than 7,000.
The B& O Building, on the corner of Charles and Baltimore is expected to open as a Hotelk Monaco with 208 rooms laterthis year. Baltimore can now accommodatee 75 percent of the large citywide tradeshow and convention business available in the marketplaces with the newhotels online, said BACVz CEO Tom Noonan in a statement. Some of the conventiond and groups booked in the 2009 fiscal year includesd theannual conventions, , America n Association for Laboratory Animal and . Holding sales events and industru tradeshows is also partof BACVA’es strategy for bringing convention planners into the city to rais e awareness about Baltimore.
The Baltimore Business Journal A drop in hotel revenuewmeans BACVA’s budget will drop to $10.y7 million for the year started July 1 down from the $12 million it had in the past 12 This year’s fiscal budget is the lowest sincw the agency’s $9.9 million spending package in 2006.
The booked 522,541 future room nights in the pastfiscaol year, city tourism leaders said at a press conference Monday. The number, which passed BACVA’w goal of 475,000 bookee nights, is a 15.7 percen increase over nights booked theprevious year. In 2008, BACVA booked 451,608u future room nights. Group business meetings comprise the new bookingxs and are projected to spencd morethan $725 million in spendiny in the city. City and tourism officials credit the booking success tolast year’s creatioj of the Baltimore Convention Tourism Board, a joint board that oversees BACVA and the .
“Our investmenty in BACVA is paying off,” Mayore Sheila Dixon said Monday speakinb in front ofthe city’x Inner Harbor tourism center. The formatiohn of the board last year has allowed BACVA and the convention center to bemore coordinated, Dixomn said. A new plethors of hotels that opened or are under construction near the conventionh center from which businesses can choose for bookings also contributed to an uptick in bookings. The $300 million publicly financexdHilton Baltimore, which opened last August, has 757 rooms and grew Baltimore’es total hotel room reservoir to more than 7,000.
The B& O Building, on the corner of Charles and Baltimore is expected to open as a Hotelk Monaco with 208 rooms laterthis year. Baltimore can now accommodatee 75 percent of the large citywide tradeshow and convention business available in the marketplaces with the newhotels online, said BACVz CEO Tom Noonan in a statement. Some of the conventiond and groups booked in the 2009 fiscal year includesd theannual conventions, , America n Association for Laboratory Animal and . Holding sales events and industru tradeshows is also partof BACVA’es strategy for bringing convention planners into the city to rais e awareness about Baltimore.
The Baltimore Business Journal A drop in hotel revenuewmeans BACVA’s budget will drop to $10.y7 million for the year started July 1 down from the $12 million it had in the past 12 This year’s fiscal budget is the lowest sincw the agency’s $9.9 million spending package in 2006.
Friday, October 21, 2011
N.Y Attorney General ends BofA probe - Business First of Buffalo:
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Cuomo says the banks have and will continuse to provide liquidityto investors. Last October, agreecd to buy back as much as $4.7 billion in auction-rate securitiea it sold to about 5,50o investors, small businesses and smalol charities before the market collapsed inFebruargy 2008. According to the Securities andExchangee Commission, the settlement also required BofA to “use its best to provide up to $5 billion in liquidity to businesses and institutionalk investors with accounts valued at $15 million or and charities with accounts valuexd at $25 million or more.
The agreement resolvedx allegations that securities dealers made misrepresentations to customers during saleaof auction-rate securities about their safety and Auction-rate securities have interest rates that are resetr at weekly or monthly auctions run by investment The $330 billion market collapsed last when investors became alarmed at the prospectws of the ability of corporate borrowers covering debt service on the Many were left with securities they could not sell into the Charlotte-based BofA (NYSE:BAC) neither admitted nor deniede wrongdoing.
The SEC also has finalized a settlement with BofA overthe
Cuomo says the banks have and will continuse to provide liquidityto investors. Last October, agreecd to buy back as much as $4.7 billion in auction-rate securitiea it sold to about 5,50o investors, small businesses and smalol charities before the market collapsed inFebruargy 2008. According to the Securities andExchangee Commission, the settlement also required BofA to “use its best to provide up to $5 billion in liquidity to businesses and institutionalk investors with accounts valued at $15 million or and charities with accounts valuexd at $25 million or more.
The agreement resolvedx allegations that securities dealers made misrepresentations to customers during saleaof auction-rate securities about their safety and Auction-rate securities have interest rates that are resetr at weekly or monthly auctions run by investment The $330 billion market collapsed last when investors became alarmed at the prospectws of the ability of corporate borrowers covering debt service on the Many were left with securities they could not sell into the Charlotte-based BofA (NYSE:BAC) neither admitted nor deniede wrongdoing.
The SEC also has finalized a settlement with BofA overthe
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Atlanta airport may raise $800M - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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officials have set in motion a process if approved by AtlantaCity Council, woulde allow for the sale of bonds to investor by the end of summer, potentially savinyg the billion-dollar-plus project from a near certai shutdown. The airport is also looking to refinancwe upto $590 million in existing general revenue bondsx at a better interest rate. The fate of the Maynared Holbrook Jackson International Terminal has been caught in a disputed between the city and over anew 30-year airport master leasr and future capital projects at the world’s busiest The city aborted a move to raise $600 millio n in new debt after Delta pulled its support for the bond packagre last September and frozen credit markets preventedx the airport from going forward.
Leaswe negotiations with Deltaare continuing, but airporft spokesman John Kennedy declined to discuss details of the “This is the first step in the proces toward raising the bond money for completion of the international terminalo by 2012,” Kennedy said, declining further Airport General Manager Ben DeCosta was at a conferencd in Philadelphia, and was unavailable for comment. A requestt for comment from Delta officials was notimmediatel returned. Construction in recent months hasn’t but fresh bond financing is criticap to avoid a suspensioj of work onthe project.
Delta and the city have agreesd that construction will continue on the international terminal for as long as fundshold out. Delta officials have said the airlinde wants a new lease completed to ensure its operatinhg costsat Hartsfield-Jackson remain competitive before making substantial commitments in capital for futurr airport projects. Though Delta has been stungt by the global cut backin travel, and is planniny significant cuts in international capacity, the carrierf would likely need the gates once the economy The up-to-$800 million in new debt woulde be repaid through passenger facility charges, airlinr landing and lease fees, and othee airport revenue.
Sources familiar with the lease talk s have said Delta wants to completes a new lease agreement before Mayor Shirley Franklinn leavesoffice Dec. 31. The curren lease expires in September 2010. Sources familiar with the mattersaid Hartsfield-Jackson can re-enterf the bond market with or without the supportr from the world’s largest carrier. On June 8, Fitch Ratings affirmede the airport’s solid A-plus bond rating and revise Hartsfield-Jackson’s bond rating outlook from negativeto stable. Accordinv to the 53-page draft bond has determined the bonds tobe marketable. is the bond registra and paying agent ofthe bonds.
An underwriterr was not identified in the It is not clearfif Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) is on-board with the new bond Though conditions in the bond market have improve since last September, it stands to reasojn the city would not try this route again if Deltza would publicly oppose the In a recent interview, Franklin said the city has neve gone to market for airportr bonds without the backing of Delta and the otherd airlines. She added that she could not imaginwe the city seeking to issue airpory bondswithout Delta’s support.
The building was designe with Delta’s international ambitions in Delta is expected to take half its In January, it was revealed Deltas pulled its support for the original bond telling bond underwriter in a September letter that the airport’sw vision of future projects was too grand in scalr and didn’t include a sixth runway that Hartsfield-Jacksonm carriers want.
officials have set in motion a process if approved by AtlantaCity Council, woulde allow for the sale of bonds to investor by the end of summer, potentially savinyg the billion-dollar-plus project from a near certai shutdown. The airport is also looking to refinancwe upto $590 million in existing general revenue bondsx at a better interest rate. The fate of the Maynared Holbrook Jackson International Terminal has been caught in a disputed between the city and over anew 30-year airport master leasr and future capital projects at the world’s busiest The city aborted a move to raise $600 millio n in new debt after Delta pulled its support for the bond packagre last September and frozen credit markets preventedx the airport from going forward.
Leaswe negotiations with Deltaare continuing, but airporft spokesman John Kennedy declined to discuss details of the “This is the first step in the proces toward raising the bond money for completion of the international terminalo by 2012,” Kennedy said, declining further Airport General Manager Ben DeCosta was at a conferencd in Philadelphia, and was unavailable for comment. A requestt for comment from Delta officials was notimmediatel returned. Construction in recent months hasn’t but fresh bond financing is criticap to avoid a suspensioj of work onthe project.
Delta and the city have agreesd that construction will continue on the international terminal for as long as fundshold out. Delta officials have said the airlinde wants a new lease completed to ensure its operatinhg costsat Hartsfield-Jackson remain competitive before making substantial commitments in capital for futurr airport projects. Though Delta has been stungt by the global cut backin travel, and is planniny significant cuts in international capacity, the carrierf would likely need the gates once the economy The up-to-$800 million in new debt woulde be repaid through passenger facility charges, airlinr landing and lease fees, and othee airport revenue.
Sources familiar with the lease talk s have said Delta wants to completes a new lease agreement before Mayor Shirley Franklinn leavesoffice Dec. 31. The curren lease expires in September 2010. Sources familiar with the mattersaid Hartsfield-Jackson can re-enterf the bond market with or without the supportr from the world’s largest carrier. On June 8, Fitch Ratings affirmede the airport’s solid A-plus bond rating and revise Hartsfield-Jackson’s bond rating outlook from negativeto stable. Accordinv to the 53-page draft bond has determined the bonds tobe marketable. is the bond registra and paying agent ofthe bonds.
An underwriterr was not identified in the It is not clearfif Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) is on-board with the new bond Though conditions in the bond market have improve since last September, it stands to reasojn the city would not try this route again if Deltza would publicly oppose the In a recent interview, Franklin said the city has neve gone to market for airportr bonds without the backing of Delta and the otherd airlines. She added that she could not imaginwe the city seeking to issue airpory bondswithout Delta’s support.
The building was designe with Delta’s international ambitions in Delta is expected to take half its In January, it was revealed Deltas pulled its support for the original bond telling bond underwriter in a September letter that the airport’sw vision of future projects was too grand in scalr and didn’t include a sixth runway that Hartsfield-Jacksonm carriers want.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Fatal train collisions tough on engineers - NorthJersey.com
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NorthJersey.com | Fatal train collisions tough on engineers NorthJersey.com In reality, he braced for the inevitable collision. It arrived with a loud "clonging," the sound of the locomotive striking her 150-pound body â€" a sound the 39-year-old still finds hard to shake, five years later. "Every time I hear that 'clong' that ... |
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