Elliott Associates LP and Paulson & Co. are said to be discussing a plan to team with Brookfield Asset Management Inc. to
bring mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. out of bankruptcy, competing with Simon Property Group.
Former WellPoint Inc. leader Larry Glasscock has joined the board of directors of the Indianapolis-based real estate giant.
A new plan by mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. to exit bankruptcy resolves some uncertainty rival bidder Simon Property
Group Inc. has criticized, Simon CEO David Simon says.
The cash payment matches a provision of a competing bid by Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc., which has offered
to buy its biggest competitor for more than $10 billion and pay all unsecured creditors.
General Growth Properties Inc. asked a judge to block a shareholder lawsuit accusing its board of improperly rejecting an
acquisition bid from Simon Property Group Inc.
The battle for General Growth Properties Inc., owner of more than 200 U.S. malls, is turning into the biggest real estate
skirmish since the sale of Sam Zell’s Equity Office Properties Trust.
Simon is at a crossroads where many other CEOs have found themselves, with most of them getting caught up in the circus, only to find destruction in their wake.
Additional offers beyond those by Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management may emerge, General Growth President
Thomas H. Nolan Jr. said.
Indianapolis-based developer Kite Realty Group Trust turned a small profit in the fourth quarter, but reported a loss in 2009
amid difficult commercial real estate conditions.
Simon’s warning was delivered in a letter sent to General Growth a day after the company essentially rebuffed Simon’s hostile
takeover bid.
Quarterly revenue remained flat at about $1 billion, but profit fell 41 percent, from $196.4 million to $115.9 million.
Unibail-Rodamco SE, Europe’s biggest shopping-center owner, has agreed to pay Simon Property Group and Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc.
$981 million for stakes in seven malls in France and Poland.
Locally based Duke Realty Corp. reported a 53 percent drop in funds from operations in the fourth quarter but still managed
to beat Wall Street expectations.
Simon will fund the purchase with available cash plus proceeds from the sale of $2.25 billion in senior unsecured notes.
Wall Street analysts have described the potential sale of Chicago-based General Growth Properties as a “once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity” for a company to make “the deal of the decade” in the shopping-mall business.
Adding the 22-mall portfolio of Baltimore-based Prime Outlets will give Simon a total of 63 outlet malls with more than 25
million square feet of space.
Simon Property Group Inc. is doubling down on outlet malls with an agreement to buy Baltimore-based Prime Outlets, a
privately held firm that owns 22 of the giant properties.
The Indianapolis-based shopping mall owner is facing competition for General Growth from Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management Inc., which also has been buying up General Growth’s debt.
General Growth Properties Inc., the nation’s second-largest shopping mall operator, said lenders have agreed
to restructure about $9.7 billion in debt. The agreements could put a damper on the acquisition aspirations of rival Simon
Property Group Inc.
Simon Property Group Inc. may sell several of its properties in Europe to help raise funds for a possible bid for bankrupt
rival General Growth Properties.
