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Starwood Hotels Celebrates Passing 100-Hotel Mark in China with Plans for Another 100

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, one of the leading international hotel and leisure companies, celebrated an important milestone, the passing of the 10o-hotel mark in its second-largest market outside the United States.

Brandywine-Allstate JV Takes Suburban D.C. Portfolio for $120.6M

The joint venture will acquire the three-building asset in Silver Spring, Md., from Urdang’s Value-Added Fund II and Moore & Associates.

SL Green Secures NYC’s 373 KSF Lease Renewal, Refinances Property for $230M

The city of New York has decided to stay put in in its 372,500-square-foot home at 100 Church St. in Manhattan, at the same time that building owner SL Green Realty Corp. refinanced the 1 million-square-foot property to the tune of $230 million.

Tanger, Gordon Group Plan Upscale Outlet Center at Connecticut Casino Complex

Taking a cue from Las Vegas, Tanger Outlets Foxwoods will link the 312,000-square-foot center to two hotels at Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest of its kind in the United States by gaming square footage.

Ventas Sells 12 Seniors Communities to Assisted Living Concepts for $100M

The transaction resolves recent litigation between the two companies and also severs the ties between them.

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Marriott’s $210M Gaylord Purchase Brings Structural Changes

Gaylord Entertainment of Nashville has agreed to sell its Gaylord Hotels brand and the management rights to its four hotels to Marriott International for $210 million in cash. The deal hinges on Gaylord’s transition to a REIT structure, which will be decided at a shareholder meeting in August.

Zell, Mack Talk Leverage, Recovery at Schack REIT Conference

In an annual REIT conference sponsored by New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, Sam Zell and William Mack offered several hundred real estate professionals and NYU students their views on leverage, consolidation and the industry’s uneven recovery.

Quest for Growth Tops Agenda at NYU-Schack REIT Conference

Where is the growth in an age of uncertainty? Some of the industry’s most influential leaders wrestled with that timely question Thursday at the annual REIT conference organized by New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.