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10 to Watch 2009

Mar 17, 2009 6:30 PM

Simon Says

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Sibley Fleming

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's new president of global development, British native Simon Turner, has built the reputation of an executive who stays calm under pressure...

BofA’s Ron Sturzenegger Is Banking on a Refinancing Boom

Mar 17, 2009 5:54 PM, Ben Johnson

Thanks to the so-called “death of Wall Street,” commercial banks have become one of the only sources of real estate financing left standing in 2009...

Emeritus Boosts Its Assisted-Living Footprint With a Hands-on Approach

Mar 17, 2009 5:59 PM, Jane Adler

When Granger Cobb sold his house in 1987 to finance the purchase of an independent-living building, he didn’t imagine that some day he’d be running one of the nation’s largest assisted-living companies...

Ed Casal, Big Player in Private Equity

Mar 17, 2009 6:02 PM, Joe Gose

Ed Casal showed impeccable timing when he merged his $110 million Madison Harbor Capital into Aviva Investors, the $470 billion global asset management unit of London-based life insurance company Aviva plc...

Duke Realty CEO Dennis Oklak Expands REIT’s Product Mix

Mar 17, 2009 6:04 PM, H. Lee Murphy

For years Duke Realty Corp. has been best known as a developer and owner of office and industrial buildings, mostly in the Midwest...

Paramount’s Behler Knows When to Hold and Fold

Mar 17, 2009 6:06 PM, Denise Kalette

If there’s one thing Albert Behler knows, it’s how to make money. Behler is president and CEO of New York-based Paramount Group, a German-owned firm that is the largest privately owned real estate acquisition and property management company in New York City...

Elif Bali Scouts Hotel Deals — Recession or No

Mar 17, 2009 6:08 PM, Denise Kalette

The recession hasn’t deterred Elif Bali, senior vice president of development for New York-based Loews Hotels...

Modern Office Champion Peter Doran Whips Corporate Space into Shape

Mar 17, 2009 6:10 PM, Joe Gose

When Nokia and Siemens AG launched a roughly $19 billion communications infrastructure joint venture known as Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) in June 2007, they threw in 20 million sq. ft. spread across 120 countries...

First Industrial’s Bruce Duncan Steers REIT Through Some Painful Times

Mar 17, 2009 6:13 PM, H. Lee Murphy

With a portfolio of 100 million sq. ft. of industrial space in North America, First Industrial Realty Trust is the nation’s third largest industrial REIT (NYSE: FR)...

Lane Co. Launches Investment Fund To Purchase Apartment Properties

Mar 17, 2009 6:15 PM, Morris Newman

Eric Hade is looking for a few good apartment complexes, and the youthful vice president of capital markets for Atlanta-based Lane Co. can afford them...

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