Forest City Enterprises News

Sam Spatter is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7843 or via e-mail. Forest City Enterprises Inc.

A 2/7/12 article in Barron's, Forest City Has Room to Grow , suggests that Forest City Enterprises, after divesting itself of the volatile land business and making its board more independent , may do better with investors, especially since it's relatively cheap.

The Chronicle's Matier and Ross tell us that Oakland has selected stadium designer HKS Inc., JRDV Architects of Oakland and mall and condo builders Forest City Enterprises to "create a plan for the 750 acres that make up the Coliseum site and neighboring new-tech development area west of Interstate 80." The $3 million for the design will come from ... (more)

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool on any article or visit www.djreprints.com The owner of America's largest residential tower is refocusing on its core rental properties business, ... (more)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Although Forest City Enterprises says it is focusing on rental products and big-city markets, Town Center General Manager Tom Bird said he would be shocked if the company "would even think about" selling its stake in the mall.

Well, the stock market sure liked Forest City Enterprises' decision to divest itself of the land business and, along the way, shifting its corporate structure to have a majority of independent, non-family directors.

Sony Corporation : Among the decisions Sony Corp.'s new CEO Kazuo Hirai faces is how to approach the company's movie and music divisions, whose profits are key to offset deep losses elsewhere at the company, by either directly involving himself or turning it over to another person in the U.S., reports the Wall Street Journal.

Workers help build a home in the Sterling Lakes community in Pepper Pike in 2006.

Forest City Enterprises , parent of Brooklyn developer Forest City Ratner, is making some changes.

Forest City Ratner's Cleveland-based parent company Forest City Enterprises completed more than $300 million in property financings in the quarter ending Jan.

For The Mall at Robinson, Forest City received a six-year term for the 880,000-square-foot facility in the quarter that ends Tuesday.

For decades, many of the town's corporate and civic leaders have considered David Morgenthaler perhaps the brightest man in Cleveland.