Thursday, June 30, 2011

Parkland Commons faces foreclosure - South Florida Business Journal:

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Earlier this week, filed a foreclosure lawsuig against developer MPG Parkland andCharleds H. Monroe III, the president of Safety Harbor-based Monroe’s Prestige Group. It’s the thirdd pending foreclosure lawsuit in Southg Florida against an affiliateof Monroe’s Monroe said he hopes the bank will deal the note to anothefr investor, but if not, he is prepared to put MPG Parklan d into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to forcse a workout. “What’s sad is the banks don’t want to work with you,” Monroe “They don’t care.” The nearly 90,000-square-foog Parkland Commons is about 65 percent leasecd after openingthis year, Monrore said.
Besides Publix, tenants include Mercanti Commercebank and Renaissance WellnessDay Spa. It sits on a 22.8-acrse site at North University Drive and Trailzs End in the wealthy city of Part of the site is Bankof America’s lawsuit is based on a mortgage to MPG Parkland last modifiee at $31 million in 2007. The complaint also namex Boston-based TriSail Funding which gave the developera $4.3 milliom mortgage in April 2008.
Monroe said he had to stop payintg interest on the Bank of America mortgage becaused he could not lease enough of the He found a tenant that signerd a lease for the restaurang atParkland Commons, but said Bank of Americ a would not fund the tenant improvements to ready the spaced for occupancy, so he could start collectinb rent, Monroe said. “It makes no he said. Miami-based attorney Lee D.
who represents Bank of America inthe lawsuit, did not immediatelty return a call seeking Monroe also is named in pendingt foreclosure lawsuits by targetinfg the Best Buy-anchored Cora l Landings III in Coral Springs/Margate and by BankAtlantic targetint the Publix-anchored Quantum Village in Boynto Beach. In April, Miami-based TW Plaza Holdings purchased the delinquenr mortgageon Monroe’s Publix-anchored Coral Landings II in Coralp Springs and acquired the propertg with a deed in lieu of foreclosure. Monroe’ws Prestige Group also owns shopping centers in Jupitetr and NorthMiami Beach. Monroe said the latter one is also havingb issues withits bank, but is not in foreclosure.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

UnitedHealth Group sees membership decline - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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billion to $2.2 billion. UnitedHealth’s trading at around 40 percenrt of the value it was at the end of coupled with its low annualizeddividende rate, put the company’s returnn to shareholders 75th for 2008. The company took a hit when announcingan $895 millioh settlement of a shareholdert lawsuit related to a stock-options scandalk involving former CEO William Legal settlements and rising medicaol costs cut into second-quarter earningzs for UnitedHealth, which reported earnings of $337 million for the down from $1.23 billion the previouw year largely due to the settlement of two class-action lawsuits that resulted in a total pretazx charge of $922 million.
The news hasn’ all been bad. UnitedHealth did see gains in its Healthb Care Services and OptumHealth companiess during thethird quarter. Like many other however, UnitedHealth has been hit by the It has seen membership decreases due to layoffszand “that puts pressure on revenues and said David Toung, a research analystg with The Minnetonka-based health insurerf in early December slightly raised the bottom range of its guidancw for 2009 to $85 billion from $84 billion, whilr keeping its profit outlook the same at $2.900 to $3.
15 per

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Varied dishes on food trucks can literally provide a movable feast - Lansing State Journal

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Friday, June 24, 2011

Red Roof restructuring debt after mortgage defaults - Business First of Columbus:

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Horsham, Pa.-based , a ratings agencuy that trackscommercial mortgage-backed securitied for investors, said four of the company’sa mortgage loans have been reported to be 30 days delinquenr and are being transferred to a special servicer. Frank a managing director at Realpoint, said the collateralized by 131 RedRoof properties, total about $361.4 Red Roof has four smaller mortgage loans totaling about $12.4 million that are current, according to a Realpoint alert issued late Wednesday. The hotel chaijn said it is in talks with lendersx to restructure debt relaterd to the acquisition ofthe company’sw real estate assets “due to the current state of the lodginb industry.
” Red Roof in 2008 was spun off to two privates investment firms for $1.3 billiob and moved back to Columbuz after being owned by Mote l 6 owner “To date, discussionzs have been highly constructive and we expectf a positive resolution in due course,” the compant said in a statement. “Thesed discussions do not affectthe day-to-day operations of the company’ds properties and will not affect Red Roof’s employees, vendors or franchise owners.” A Red Roof spokeswoman declined to commentr beyond the company’s statement. Red Roof has aboutg 4,500 employees and about 350 company-owned and franchiseds properties.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

KENYA: Poor adherence threatens paediatric ARV programme - Plus News

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Metrolist: Denver's resale housing market showing hopeful signs - Orlando Business Journal:

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Single-family home sales in June, for example, were equally splirt between the lower price ranges that appeakto first-time homebuyers and pricief houses that attract homebuyers moving up to larger and/or more expensive "Earlier this year, the majorityh of resale home activity was first-time homebuyers, distressesd properties and investor activity," independent Littletoh broker Gary Bauer said in a statement. "June appear s to be the transition to a normal Denvermarket -- a markey with both first-time homebuyer activitgy as well as 'move-up' activity.
" Resal homes are those that have sold at least once Combined sales of single-family houses and condominiumd increased 15.4 percent to 4,1876 in June from 3,628 in May. Late springt and summer traditionally arethis country's prims home-selling season, because families buying and selling homes try to complet e deals and move when children are out of But June home sales this year were down 13.6 percenrt from 4,845 for the same mont of 2008. In 3,328 single-family homes were sold, up from 2,85y sales in May, but down from 3,847u for the year-prior Last month, condo sales rose to 858 from 771in April, but were down from 998 year over Average sold price for both types of home rose 6.
34 percenr to $258,434 in June from $243,02 2 in May. That price was down 3.21 percent from June 2008'as average selling price of $267,005. Average sold prices for single-family homes -- which is up from $262,066 in May, but down from $286,887u from the year-prior June. Median sold price for single-familyg homes -- $237,500, up from both the previouss month ($220,000) and from June 2008 The median sold price for a home is the middle priced between highestand lowest. It's considered a truer measure of price than average by many real estate professionalsbecause it's not skewed by highest and lowesg prices.
Average sold price for condos -- down from $172,454 in May and $190,367 year over Median sold price forcondos -- $139,837, up from $137,000 in May, but a drop from $148,34t5 for the year-prior June. Condoa also are selling faster with an average of 97 days on the markefin June, down from 110 days in May and from 108 days year over For this year's first six months, totalo home sales and sold prices were down from the same periodd of 2008, according to Metrolist. Combinexd sales of single-family homes and condos decreased 17.5 percent to 19,36w3 from 23,471 for the first six months of last Average selling price was down nearly 8 percengto $235,930 from $256,408.
Averag e days on the market for both housing types dippec to 104through June, from 106 for the same periof of 2008. Other year-to-date data througgh June, compared to the same period of include: Single-family homes sold -- 15,432, down from Average single-family home sold priced -- $256,353, down from $277,566. Median single-familu home sold price -- down from $224,900. Condos sold -- 3,931, down from Average sold price forcondos -- down from $176,426. Median sold price for condozs -- $129,000, down from $139,000.
Basefd in Greenwood Village, Metrolisft is metro Denver's Multiplee Listing Service, which is an association of real estate brokersd that share property listingsx witheach other.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Alsace offers food-friendly Riesling - TheChronicleHerald.ca

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