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In the News (Sun 23 Nov 08)

  
  Reichmanns Rebound
It is virtually the same name Reichmann and Hauer chose in 1993 when, in a feat of moxy, they convinced many of Olympia & York's creditors to let them continue managing the buildings that had just been seized from the family.
Long after his cousins found their places in the family empire, Barry Reichmann was studying the Jewish scriptures at a yeshiva in Spring Valley, N.Y. But in 1993, at the urging of his father, Paul, he decided it was time to make his way in business.
Barry Reichmann is convinced that the aging population - the number of Canadians over 75 is forecast to increase 62 per cent over the next 20 years - means a bright future for the trust.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0011407   (2005 words)

  
 Albert Reichmann - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Albert Reichmann (born 1929) was one of the five brothers that controlled the Reichmann business empire.
Albert served in a secondary role as chairman of the company.
In the late 1980s while Paul was devoting his time to the Canary Wharf project Albert became closely involved in the cause of the Jews in the Soviet Union.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1225605   (232 words)

  
  CJNews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MONTREAL- Albert Reichmann and his nephew Abraham Reichmann were in in town recently to talk up the $1.05-billion Technodôme, the big indoor recreation and entertainment complex they are proposing to build in Montreal.
The Reichmanns, who are known to shun publicity, spoke about their mega-project to 800 members of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, sharing the spotlight with a wise-cracking robot of gleaming chrome.
Later, the younger Reichmann, who is president and chief operating officer of Heathmount A.E. Corp., said the company made a "firm offer" in June to the federal government, and that he hopes to receive a response in the next few weeks.
www.cjnews.com /pastIssues/99/dec9-99/front4.htm   (678 words)

  
 Reichmann Family
The 3 brothers, Albert, Paul and Ralph were born in Austria where their parents had moved in 1928 and after further moves to France, Spain and Morocco, they arrived in Canada in 1956.
In 1987 the Reichmanns unveiled plans for a massive development in Miami and a $6.5-billion project at Canary Wharf in London, Eng.
The great expense of the Canary Wharf project greatly overextended OandY during the recession of 1990-92 and in 1992, despite the sale of some of its assets, the the Canary Wharf project was declared bankrupt and the Reichmann brothers largely lost control of the company that they had created.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTA0006753   (310 words)

  
 Faith and Fortune
Although ultra-Orthodox, the Reichmann's became one of the dozen wealthiest families in the world, their property holdings constituting the greatest real estate empire the world had ever seen.
It was there in the International Zone with its utter absence of commercial restraints, among the Nazi agents and allied spies, that the modern family's patriarch, Samuel Reichmann, built a fortune as a currency trader.
As the Reichmann story unfolds the documentary examines the tensions between the family's ultra-Orthodox religious beliefs and their huge ambitions in the business world.
www.frif.com /new2001/fai2.html   (481 words)

  
 Ottawa Business Journal - Home Page
Company CEO Philip Reichmann, son of company co-founder Albert Reichmann, said it is the largest portfolio of properties ever put up for sale in Canada.
Reichmann told the media during a conference call.
Brookfield Properties Corp., another name well known in local commercial real estate circles, confirmed Tuesday it could be interested in tendering to O&Y's call for buyout offers.
www.ottawabusinessjournal.com /282626771701175.php   (335 words)

  
 Paul Reichmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reichmann was born in Vienna in 1930 to Samuel Reichmann, a wealthy egg merchant and his wife René.
Reichmann, at the time 75, announced that he intended to retire from business and sold many of his property holdings, realising considerable value.
In September 2006 Reichmann announced that he was bored with retirement and that he would be setting up a new $4bn fund, based in Toronto, with offices in the UK and Netherlands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Reichmann   (946 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Who will speak for Flight 103 victims? - 09.02.93
When Albert Reichmann approached Edward Kennedy as he left the Senate floor in Washington on Aug. 5, the U.S. senator thought the Canadian-based real estate magnate wanted to talk about Israel.
But, later in Kennedy's office, Reichmann pitched a deal on behalf of Libya that would scuttle attempts to apprehend two men indicted in the U.S. and Britain for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Reichmann has not been the most contradictory, high-profile figure to represent Libya recently.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.02.93/NEWS/med0902.php   (1056 words)

  
 Reichmann family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reichmann's were originally from the small shtetl of Beled, Hungary but the ambitious Samuel Reichmann moved them to Vienna in 1928 where he became a successful merchant.
Albert played a secondary but central role, while Ralph remained in charge of the tile business.
The younger generation of Reichmanns has increasingly been playing a major role, with Ralph's son Samuel Reichmann seen as the heir apparent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reichmann_family   (412 words)

  
 Israel HighTech-MAG.com - Israel Business and Technology News » Reichmann family - Founders of the Olympia and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Edward Reichmann (1925 - July, 2005) was the oldest of the five Reichmann brothers, famed for their global business empire.
After the collapse on O&Y in 1992 Albert Reichmann became president of Heathmount Arts and Entertainment Corp, a company owning a number of entertainment venues.
Paul Reichmann (born 1930) is a Canadian businessman best known for his leadership of the Olympia & York property development company.
www.hightech-mag.com /index.php/vip/2006/02/reichmann-family-founders-of-the-olympia-and-york-real-estate-empire   (1426 words)

  
 Reichman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Paul Moshe Reichmann was born in Vienna in 1930.
The Reichmanns were one of the ten wealthiest families in the world, ranking just below the British Royal family in the 1980s.
Paul Reichmann has been at the same time one of the most resourceful and resilient enterpreneurs of the 20th century and also a strict observant Jew, leading a rigorously devout, modest private life.
www.shemayisrael.co.il /orgs/ozar/reichman.htm   (315 words)

  
 BW Online | August 23, 1993 | THE MAN WHO MOVES MARKETS
Last December, it snapped up a portfolio worth $350 million in commercial mortgages from the Resolution Trust Corp., and Reichmann and Soros are now zeroing in on a far more ambitious project--the mammoth Santa Fe development in Mexico City, which is one of the boldest schemes for urban development in the world.
It is a project worthy of the Reichmanns of yore.
In addition, Soros and Reichmann are finalizing their plans for an office building and historic preservation project elsewhere in Mexico City.
www.businessweek.com /archives/1993/b333342.arc.htm?campaign_id=search   (4446 words)

  
 RealEstateJournal | Brookfield Consortium Buys O&Y Portfolio
Reichmann said pension funds and foreign investors, flush with cash, have been driving up real-estate prices to the point where "it didn't make sense" for O&Y to continue scouting for acquisitions.
Philip Reichmann's father, Albert, along with his brothers Paul and Ralph, built a real-estate empire through Olympia & York Developments Ltd., which formerly owned First Canadian Place.
O&Y Properties was formed by two members of the Reichmann family as a management company after Olympia & York went bust.
www.realestatejournal.com /propertyreport/office/20050603-heinzl.html   (520 words)

  
 S. Bilsky, BIO
n his corporate role, Sandy spent 12 years at Olympia and York reporting to the Reichmann Brothers during the period when they were the largest privately owned commercial real estate developers in the world.
As Vice President of Leasing, Director of Business Development and Senior Negotiator for Olympia and York, he was responsible for over 14 million square feet of retail and office space throughout the United States.
lbert Reichmann, President, Olympia and York Properties: "Paul and I greatly appreciated the many contributions you made to the growth of Olympia and York.
www.riequities.com /bio.htm   (869 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Canada
Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Reichmann family won shareholder support for the first part of a two-tier transaction to sell its Canadian real-estate holdings to a group led by Brookfield Properties Corp. for about C$1.25 billion ($1.06 billion).
The purchase of the Reichmanns' 24 properties would give the company Toronto's 72-story First Canadian Place, the country's tallest office tower.
Philip Reichmann's father, Albert Reichmann, co-founded Olympia and York Developments Ltd., with holdings valued at $14 billion before its 1992 bankruptcy.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=aTaXyOitIuPc   (466 words)

  
 Case Rabbi Perry Ian Cohen, of Montreal and Toronto Canada
She had a staff and a confidential position seeing to the preparation of lease documents for signature by Albert Reichmann.
She was in contact with numerous lawyers and I believe could easily have obtained legal advice on her personal matters.
In this regard she named her father, her first husband, Albert Reichmann and the defendant as strong male persons.
www.theawarenesscenter.org /perrycohen.html   (14615 words)

  
 Staying Alive
He came to New York in 1984 to work for Paul and Albert Reichmann's Olympia and York.
The Reichmanns built the World Financial Center in New York and London's Canary Wharf.
Clark was part of the group of former Olympia and York executives who held on to many of the company's U.S. assets.
www.tenantwise.com /press/p09302002f.asp   (1856 words)

  
 Secret FBI File on Albert Gore Sr [Free Republic]
Former vice president Albert Gore Jr.ís expected political comeback may be rougher than he imagines.
Little Albert briefly is mentioned in his fatherís FBI file as a curious 11-year-old who in 1957 requests and receives ìtwo souvenir targetsî as mementos of a private FBI tour.
Senator Albert Gore Jr., who is officially described by the establishment media as a Gentile.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b83e6a737e3.htm   (7995 words)

  
 j. - Holocaust denial, racism litter Canadian campaign
At least 1,000 people came to hear him speak at a rally in a Thornhill synagogue several weeks ago.
Last month, at least 100 members of Toronto's Jewish community, including real estate developer Albert Reichmann, attended a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the Alliance, whose positions on family values, separate school funding and other issues seem to be in step with some members of the observant Jewish community.
Moshe Ronen, the national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said none of the five parties in the Canadian Parliament is racist or anti-Semitic, and that the Alliance Party has made assurances that it would not tolerate extremist elements within its ranks.
www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/14979/edition_id/291/format/html/displaystory.html   (381 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Breakfast with the big boys - 10.19.00
There are also many rich businesspeople who give money and attend fundraising dinners for the mayor.
These include developers Albert Reichmann, Jim DeGasperis and Angelo Del Zotto, Trevor Eyton, Tory lawyer and Mulroney best friend Sam Wakim, ONEX CEO Gerald Schwartz, George Cohon and Jim Ginou, a Harris chum and chair of Ontario Place.
As Siemiatycki observes, "The irony of Mel Lastman is that he's a politician who projects the image of being the voice of the little guy when, in fact, he's got a lot of big boys around him."
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.19.00/news/mel.html   (2249 words)

  
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 TIME.com: How Do You Spell Relief? -- Jan. 22, 1990 -- Page 1
To reassure creditors, the corporation's directors last week banished Robert Campeau from all U.S. operations and said he would confine himself to developing Canadian real estate.
The twelve board members included Albert Reichmann, chairman of Olympia & York Developments, a Canadian real estate giant that has invested $700 million in Campeau Corp. and holds a 38% stake in the company.
Emerging from four days of meetings in Toronto's pink marble Scotia Plaza, the directors said they had vested control of the U.S. stores in a voting trust to be run by a board of U.S. trustees.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,969222,00.html   (806 words)

  
 THE BLUEPRINT BOYS With no money and scant English, immigrant tradesmen built much of Canada's industrial base from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews with roots in Hungary, the Reichmann family moved to Vienna in the 1920s.
In the face of the Nazi steamroller, they fled to Paris and then to Tangier, finally settling in Montreal and Toronto in the 1950s.
Brothers Paul and Albert Reichmann built a real estate goliath, Olympia & York, that crashed in 1992 under the weight of the Canary Wharf megaproject in London.
www.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20050624/RO7IMMIGRANTS   (4309 words)

  
 Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - IN-DEPTH FEATURES
Eventually, he left Chinuch Atzmai and around fifteen years ago, opened a kollel with the help of the brothers Mr.
Albert Reichmann, with whose family he had been friendly in Tangiers.
With his son, Rav Meir Waltner ylct'a, leading the kollel, Rav Waltner would deliver shiurim and shmuessen to the avreichim.
chareidi.shemayisrael.com /archives5763/BLK63features2.htm   (3854 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Business Advisory Board was formed in December 2001 to provide the Company with expertise in international finance, strategic management and business opportunities.
The Business Advisory Board also includes Albert Reichmann (co-founder, Olympia and York Developments Limited) and Dr. Jozef Straus (CEO, JDS Uniphase Corporation).
Product R is being investigated as a non-toxic peptide-nucleic acid-type immunomodulator that appears to stimulate the proinflammatory responses required to combat viral infections such as AIDS and human papilloma virus and to dampen aberrant autoimmune-type inflammatory responses, such as occur in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
www.acor.org /drugs/pipeline/news/parsed/7666215.news   (972 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The list of those who signed includes business people, rabbis, community activists and academics.
Among the names on the document are: Israel (Izzy) Asper, Phillip and Albert Reichmann, Dorothy Reitman, Gerald Schwartz, Michael Serruya and Michael Bregman; Ariela Cotler, wife of Montreal MP Irwin cotler, Senator Sheila Finestone, Robert Libman, mayor of Cote St. Luc and a chair of B'nai Brith in Quebec, and Gerry Weiner.
Conspicuous by their absences, however, are the names of Moshe Ronen, president of Canadian Jewish Congress; CIC chair Joseph Wilder; and B'nai Brith Canada president Lawrence Hart.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/01/jan18-01/front2.asp   (1082 words)

  
 THE BILLIONAIRES 1991 - September 9, 1991
ALBERT REICHMANN, 63 PAUL REICHMANN, 62 RALPH REICHMANN, 59 Toronto CANADA $12.8 100% of Olympia and York Developments Ltd.: European, Canadian, and American real estate; securities.
Despite holding title to huge chunks of depressed New York real estate, having some $150 million tied up in unsecured Campeau Corp. debt, and having taken a big gamble on developing London's Canary Wharf office and retail complex, the Reichmanns are not hurting financially.
When his father, Prince Johannes, died shortly after a heart transplant in December, Albert became the world's youngest billionaire.
money.cnn.com /magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/09/09/75462   (16275 words)

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