News on Brookfield

General Growth gets offer of $3.93B investment

2010-03-08T20:30:18Z

<div id="subtitle">General Growth says Fairholme and Pershing Square offer $3.93 billion investment</div><div><p>Two major investors in General Growth Properties are joining Brookfield Asset Management in offering to inject a combined $6.5 billion in fresh funds into the shopping mall op...

Fairholme, Pershing to up General Growth investment

2010-03-08T18:00:15Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fairholme Capital Management and Pershing Square, two key investors in General Growth Properties Inc <GGP.N>, are teaming up to invest another $3.93 billion in the mall operator to help it em...

General Growth creditors, Simon attack Ackman

2010-03-02T12:15:52Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Growth Properties Inc's <GGWPQ.PK> unsecured creditors and suitor Simon Property Group <SPG.N> on Tuesday criticized William Ac...

Simon says General Growth has not shared any data

2010-03-02T12:15:35Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of Simon Property Group Inc <SPG.N> said on Tuesday that despite signing an agreement, it has yet to receive any information from bankrupt General Growth Properties Inc <GGWPQ.PK>, t...

General Growth inks deal to exit bankruptcy

2010-02-24T18:00:08Z

<div id="subtitle">General Growth inks deal with Brookfield Asset Management in bid to exit bankruptcy</div><div><p>The nation's second-largest shopping mall operator, General Growth Properties Inc., said Wednesday it reached a deal with Canada...

WSJ: Brookfield ready to bid for General Growth

2010-02-23T13:45:16Z

<div id="subtitle">WSJ: Brookfield preparing bid for mall operator General Growth, in effort to top rival</div><div><p>Canadian property manager Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is preparing to bid for a large slice of General Growth Proper...

Rare Bornean Orangutan Born At Chicago's Brookfield Zoo

2010-02-18T16:46:27Z

BROOKFIELD, IL - OCTOBER 23: Sophia, a twenty-seven-year-old Bornean orangutan, holds her newborn in her enclosure at Brookfield Zoo October 23, 2008 in Brookfield, Illinois. The female infant, which was born October 6, is one of only two orangutan births expected in North American zoos this year. There are an estimated 61,000 orangutans...

Brookfield Homes reports smaller 4Q loss

2010-02-22T10:16:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Developer Brookfield Homes narrows 4Q loss on rising new orders, sales</div><div><p>Brookfield Homes Corp. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter loss narrowed from the year before as the homebuilder enjoyed increases in new orders and completed sales.</p><p>The company also reported full-year results and said it was "cautio...

Brookfield results slip on residential decline

2010-02-24T12:43:51Z

<div id="subtitle">Brookfield Properties posts 3rd-quarter dip as residential development weighs on results</div><div><p>Real estate developer Brookfield Properties Corp., owner of high-profile properties like the World Financial Center in New York and Craig Santos of Eustis Cable in Brookfield, Vt. installs fiber optic cable for Comcast in Ira, Vt. The stimulus package championed by the Obama administration set aside up to $350 million to create a national broadband map. T...

mosport

2009-08-27T10:18:46Z

Tony Burgess at Mosport RaceFest 2009 - American Le Mans Series Driver Photo Call at Brookfield Place. Toronto, Canada - 26.08.09

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STAY HOME, YOUNG MAN

2010-02-26T16:51:07Z

<div><h1> STAY HOME, YOUNG MAN </h1><p>Are you a young executive yearning for adventure? Tough luck. According to a recently published survey, multinational companies are planning to send fewer employees on global assignments this year. Of the 180 companies polled, more than two-thirds said they will decrease or, at most, maintain expatriate levels. And those still willing to relocate employees are turning to older and more experienced w...

Gold miner soars on joint venture news

2010-03-03T14:48:26Z

<div id="subtitle">A junior miner climbed after reports it will establish a Chinese joint venture company, while a healthcare IT firm surged on acquisition news.</div><div><tr><td><b>'+company+ '</b> (<a href="http://content.mochila.com/FinancialTools/sn_overview.asp?symbol='+exchange+'.'+symbol+'">TSX: '+exchange+'.'+symbol+'</a>, <a href="http://content.mochila.c...

Bravo, Brookfield! Major Lease Signed at 2 WFC

2010-03-02T20:49:43Z

<div><p>At long last, some good news for Brookfield Properties! The real estate investment firm was struck by lightning last fall, when Bank of America announced the imminent absorption of Merrill Lynch...

IT'S TOUGH TO SHOP FOR SURGERY

2010-03-03T00:01:03Z

<div><h1> IT'S TOUGH TO SHOP FOR SURGERY </h1><p>The proposal, from Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, to let patients behave like customers and shop around contains a fatal flaw ("If Hea...

Now Hiring Nurses

2009-04-24T06:10:50Z

Registered nurse Pat Boodoo reviews patient data during a shift last month at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield, Oct. 22, 2008. While other industries are shedding jobs, nursing recruiters are frantically trying to hire new workers to address a nationwide nursing shor...

More 3Q Fun! Brookfield's Results Include Merrill Lynch Mulling

2010-02-27T18:47:29Z

<div><p>Brookfield Properties, which, along with its holdings in Canada and across the States, owns the World Financial Center downtown and is developing two sleek skyscrapers on Ninth Avenue, held its third quarter earnings conference call this morning. </p><p>While there was plenty of talk about the...

Brookfield Behind on Ninth Avenue Towers

2010-02-28T11:09:32Z

<div><p> </p><p>Brookfield Properties has yet to begin "substantial" construction of a platform necessary to construct its two planned Ninth Avenue skyscrapers, despite earlier statements that the work would begin this past summer, according to Real Estate Weekly. </p><p>In February, Brookfield Properties, Merrill Lynch's landlord at the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan, took a beating yesterday in public trading. According to the