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April 29, 2008
Forest City in the News
The Johns Hopkins University Gazette, 'Rebuilding America's Cities'
The third annual Rebuilding America's Cities lecture presented by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies and Evergreen Museum & Library will be held at 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, May 1, in the Evergreen Carriage House. Ronald Ratner, executive vice president and director of Forest City Enterprises, and president and CEO of Forest City Residential Group, will give a talk titled "American Cities: Does Size Matter?"
Ratner, an executive vice president of one of the largest publicly traded real estate companies in the United States, will discuss the pitfalls of equating city size and growth with success, the central role that cities play in metropolitan areas and smart strategies for shrinking cities.
Curious topic, since Forest City Enterprises is the beneficiary of a massive state zoning override for the Atlantic Yards mini-city planned in the "Heart of Brooklyn." Since we seem to be keeping count, the article sites Atlantic Yards in "downtown Brooklyn," instead of Prospect Heights.
New Mexico Business Weekly, Lumidigm soon to join Mesa del Sol community
New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Patrick Lyons said on Tuesday fingerprinting technology firm Lumidigm soon will break ground on a 25,000-square-foot facility at Mesa del Sol.
Lumidigm has signed a lease for land from Forest City Covington NM, the developer of the 13,000-acre, master-planned community on the southern outskirts of Albuquerque. The facility will be located in the community's town center.
New Mexico Business Weekly, Mesa del Sol signs agreement with South Valley center
The master-planned community being developed by Forest City Covington New Mexico signed an agreement with the South Valley Economic Development Center that will help local growers build capacity to supply the 13,000-acre project south of the Albuquerque International Sunport.
The South Valley Economic Development Center assisted local growers in creating the Rio Grande Growers' Association. Mesa del Sol will invest $100,000 for administrative expenses and start-up capital for the association. Growers will provide Mesa del Sol with plants for its Aperture Park and for plantings along the extension of University Boulevard.
Mesa del Sol also will appoint a landscape expert to work with growers and identify the quantity and specific plants to be used for landscaping. The growers, in turn, will supply drought-tolerant, low-water use and native plant materials.
Posted by lumi at April 29, 2008 4:13 AM