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NHL court filings with the U.S Bankruptcy Cour t handling the Coyotes Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection includee a list of possible owners that woulcd keep the teamin Arizona. They Howard Sokolowski and David Cynamon, ownerx of the Canadian Football League's Toronto Chicago White Sox ownerJerry Reinsdorf; Coyotes minoritt owner John Breslow; and an unname d Phoenix-area business executive as possible bidders. Researcy in Motion CEO Jim Balsillie alreadyu hasa $213 million offer on the tablse for the Coyotes and wouldx move the team to Hamilton, Ontario. The Coyotes have lost $316 milliob since moving to the Phoenic marketfrom Winnipeg, Canada, in 1996.
Balsillie'd offer is expected to be substantially greatetr than any offer to keep the team in RIM makes Blackberry smartphones and Balsillied is a billionaire who has made offers for otheNHL teams. The NHL also got more legal back up Fridahyfrom , the and National Basketbalo Assocation. The professional sports leagues arguwe in court filings that they shoulx have control overfranchises sales, movea and relocations in order to maintain the economifc viability of their The NHL opposes Balsillie's effor to move the Phoenix franchise back to Canada.
Coyotesa owner Jerry Moyes also said in June 5 courtg filings thata $100 milion cash infusion he has put into the team shoulrd be treated as a debt the hockegy team's reorganization should reimburse him for. Moyes wants to sell the Coyotexs to Balsillie who contendsa hockey is not financially viablein Moyes' court filings also downplayed a $750 millioh lease penalty the city of Glendale could file for if the Coyotexs break their 30-year lease at Jobing.com Arena. Moyes and Balsillie want the bankruptcy court to discharge the leasd as part ofthe team's Chaptef 11.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Suniva CEO: Solar industry closer to grid parity - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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While the industry isn’yt quite there, it’s getting close, John CEO of told a gathering of tech entrepreneurs and investors at the ATDC Entrepreneuriall Showcaseon Wednesday. Baumstark shouldd know. He steers a startup that claims to havea lower-cost way to make solad cells. Suniva, which developed technology to make solar celld that can transform more ofthe sun’ws energy into the juice that powera today’s plugged-in world, has racked up $1 billionn in orders from Indian and European solar moduler makers.
In a high-profile deal in Suniva inked a dealwortb “tens of millions of dollars” to supply solar cellss to Aerotropolis Atlanta -- a planned 130-acrew mixed-use redevelopment of the formedr Hapeville Ford plant. “Solar has gotten a knocik about cost,” Baumstark said. In about 25 percent of the U.S. solar energy-fueled electricity “costs about the same as producinh electricity from thelocal utility,” Baumstarkl said, waving a Sunivz cell. “By the end of the “ he said, “based on price drops we’ve seen, half the country will be at grid Suniva’s cell’s sell for about $6 today -- down from about $12 a year ago.
“I thinmk it’s wonderful for the industry,” Baumstark said. “Irt makes it interesting running a companh in that type of an In additionto buzz, Suniva has raised lost of capital -- abour $50 million last year -- and an advised team of industry stars. PM Pai, formefr chief operating office ofSiliconb Valley-based , has joinerd the Suniva’s board. Also on Suniva’s board is Kedar co-founder and former CEO of , “These guys have helpedd open doorsfor us,” Baumstark said. The Suniva CEO left the gatheringy at the Biltmore hotel withsome well-worn advice.
“Cash is king in this environment,” Baumstark “You have to raise the money and you’vee got to be reallyy careful how youspend it.” Differentiation is key -- when Baumstark suggested. “If you can’t articulate how you’re how you’re better or how you can beat somebodyh elseout there, they’re not going to fund you," he
While the industry isn’yt quite there, it’s getting close, John CEO of told a gathering of tech entrepreneurs and investors at the ATDC Entrepreneuriall Showcaseon Wednesday. Baumstark shouldd know. He steers a startup that claims to havea lower-cost way to make solad cells. Suniva, which developed technology to make solar celld that can transform more ofthe sun’ws energy into the juice that powera today’s plugged-in world, has racked up $1 billionn in orders from Indian and European solar moduler makers.
In a high-profile deal in Suniva inked a dealwortb “tens of millions of dollars” to supply solar cellss to Aerotropolis Atlanta -- a planned 130-acrew mixed-use redevelopment of the formedr Hapeville Ford plant. “Solar has gotten a knocik about cost,” Baumstark said. In about 25 percent of the U.S. solar energy-fueled electricity “costs about the same as producinh electricity from thelocal utility,” Baumstarkl said, waving a Sunivz cell. “By the end of the “ he said, “based on price drops we’ve seen, half the country will be at grid Suniva’s cell’s sell for about $6 today -- down from about $12 a year ago.
“I thinmk it’s wonderful for the industry,” Baumstark said. “Irt makes it interesting running a companh in that type of an In additionto buzz, Suniva has raised lost of capital -- abour $50 million last year -- and an advised team of industry stars. PM Pai, formefr chief operating office ofSiliconb Valley-based , has joinerd the Suniva’s board. Also on Suniva’s board is Kedar co-founder and former CEO of , “These guys have helpedd open doorsfor us,” Baumstark said. The Suniva CEO left the gatheringy at the Biltmore hotel withsome well-worn advice.
“Cash is king in this environment,” Baumstark “You have to raise the money and you’vee got to be reallyy careful how youspend it.” Differentiation is key -- when Baumstark suggested. “If you can’t articulate how you’re how you’re better or how you can beat somebodyh elseout there, they’re not going to fund you," he
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Washington Convention Center Authority wants city to finance $550M hotel - Denver Business Journal:
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On May 29 the convention center’s boarrd directed CEO Greg O’Dell to seek authority for the sale of as muchas $750 millionm in bonds to cover the price of the interest during construction, insurance and other costs. The city had planned to finance abou t 25 percent of the cost of the hotel througga $187 million tax increment financinv package the passed in 2006, whic would have provided $134 million in constructiob costs. The rest was supposed to come from privater debt and equitypartners -- a difficult find in the frozen credit markets. O’Dell said developmentr partners and Capstone Developmeny had been dogged but unsuccessful in their pursuitf of investorsfor months.
“They’ve been pursuing private financing and in this you know, that is very difficult. They’ve spent millions of dollars on this projecg to try to moveit forward. It reallt is shovel ready with the exceptionof O’Dell said. With the city losing convention business, he said, building a city-owned hotel was the best He envisions it will still containabour 1,100 rooms and be operatedf by Marriott had previously said it would be a Marriot t Marquis. O'Dell began briefing members ofthe D.C. Councilp on the board’s proposao Monday.
“Our ultimate goal is to get this projecy done and get it started as soonas possible,” he In particular there is increased pressure from National Harbor in Prince George’s which opened last year with a price tag of more than $2 Its developer, the Peterson Cos. announced May 18 that the WaltDisnety Co. had purchased land to buildd a 500-room resort hotel on 15 acrese there. Convincing the council to approve that amountof however, will be a tall task for He had been considered a top candidatde to replace Neil Albert as deputy mayor for planninfg and economic development, but a sourc close to O'Dell says he was offered the job and turned it O’Dell would not confirm that, but indicated he wouls remain in his curreny post.
“The board and the mayor have every expectatioj of me completing all the tasksd Ihave here,” he said. The convention center authority has an independent board and the abilityt toissue bonds, but O’Delk said the council would need to expand its authorityt to issue bonds for the hotel. The councill and D.C. Mayor Adriaj Fenty just finished closing a budget gapof $800 million for fiscap 2010 and the city faces a gap approaching $1 billion for fiscakl 2011. In addition, D.C.
Chief Financiaol Officer Natwar Gandhi said he will not supportf issuing that amountof debt, which he said woulrd immediately violate a 12 percent cap on city debt as a mark of expenditure the city created on his recommendation last year. Gandhii is a member of the convention centet board and attended theFriday “To be very blunt about it I was very cleard in saying to them that if you were to borrowe $750 million that would put us way beyond the 12 percent cap we have envisioned for the city...ane I cannot be a part y to that,” Gandhi said. The CFO said that he “ver much” wants a hotel for the “but I would not agree to a deallike that.
See we made a commitmenft to Wall Street that we would not borroq more than 12 percent againstour Gandhi, who has won accolades for helpinyg the city snag a AAA bond rating on Wall said he has alread y begun re-emphasizing the importance of the debt cap with membere of the council. “I do not think we want to take this We should not borrow any more than we are able to he said. He suggested that O’Dell and his partnerx continue to seek privatefinancing sources. Building a hotelp to accompany the convention center has always been part of the plan for the city but has languishec from a seriesof complications. Construction on the Walted E.
Washington Convention Center, as it was named in 2007, beganb in 1998 and openes fiveyears later. D.C. planned a 1,400-rookm hotel, but did not control the needed land. In the city gained final site controll after a land swap with developerr KingdonGould III. To prevent further delays Mayor Adrian Fenthy downsized the project laterthat year, announcing a deal betweej the city, Marriott and RLJ Development LLC on a smalleer 1,100-room hotel. Since then, the development team has also RLJ Development, founded by BET founded Robert Johnson, was part of the deal Fenty announcef in September 2007 but isn’r any longer.
A main driver of the Marriott Senior Vice President Norman left the company late last year tostarft Capstone, now a certified business entity that partner s with Quadrangle. Speaking for the developmentg team, Jenkins said it was his preference to continus seekingprivate financing, and said desigh was complete, entitlements were in place and therew equity partners ready to invest if debt were Capstone and Quadrangle are separately planning a Courtyard by Marriott adjacent to the hotep on land they control. “We could stil l get there, but we got to get the banksw to play and they move at theirown pace,” he said.
Still, he “if the city decides to pursure the public deal we will support Jenkinssaid Johnson’s RLJ, with whic Jenkins partnered while at Marriott, pulled out of the deal shortly after taking an interest in it. “Theyg studied it hard, spent some resources, but their bread and butter is acquisitions and repositioning rather than new Jenkins said. Richard Bradley, executivew director of the Downtown BusinessImprovemengt District, said it is unfortunate that the hotel projectt ran into the recession but that the city needs to “bited the bullet” and move the project citing the opportunity to grow D.C.
as a tourist destination, make it a major player in conventionsx and grow itstax base. “There’ a whole set of good things about moving this he said.
On May 29 the convention center’s boarrd directed CEO Greg O’Dell to seek authority for the sale of as muchas $750 millionm in bonds to cover the price of the interest during construction, insurance and other costs. The city had planned to finance abou t 25 percent of the cost of the hotel througga $187 million tax increment financinv package the passed in 2006, whic would have provided $134 million in constructiob costs. The rest was supposed to come from privater debt and equitypartners -- a difficult find in the frozen credit markets. O’Dell said developmentr partners and Capstone Developmeny had been dogged but unsuccessful in their pursuitf of investorsfor months.
“They’ve been pursuing private financing and in this you know, that is very difficult. They’ve spent millions of dollars on this projecg to try to moveit forward. It reallt is shovel ready with the exceptionof O’Dell said. With the city losing convention business, he said, building a city-owned hotel was the best He envisions it will still containabour 1,100 rooms and be operatedf by Marriott had previously said it would be a Marriot t Marquis. O'Dell began briefing members ofthe D.C. Councilp on the board’s proposao Monday.
“Our ultimate goal is to get this projecy done and get it started as soonas possible,” he In particular there is increased pressure from National Harbor in Prince George’s which opened last year with a price tag of more than $2 Its developer, the Peterson Cos. announced May 18 that the WaltDisnety Co. had purchased land to buildd a 500-room resort hotel on 15 acrese there. Convincing the council to approve that amountof however, will be a tall task for He had been considered a top candidatde to replace Neil Albert as deputy mayor for planninfg and economic development, but a sourc close to O'Dell says he was offered the job and turned it O’Dell would not confirm that, but indicated he wouls remain in his curreny post.
“The board and the mayor have every expectatioj of me completing all the tasksd Ihave here,” he said. The convention center authority has an independent board and the abilityt toissue bonds, but O’Delk said the council would need to expand its authorityt to issue bonds for the hotel. The councill and D.C. Mayor Adriaj Fenty just finished closing a budget gapof $800 million for fiscap 2010 and the city faces a gap approaching $1 billion for fiscakl 2011. In addition, D.C.
Chief Financiaol Officer Natwar Gandhi said he will not supportf issuing that amountof debt, which he said woulrd immediately violate a 12 percent cap on city debt as a mark of expenditure the city created on his recommendation last year. Gandhii is a member of the convention centet board and attended theFriday “To be very blunt about it I was very cleard in saying to them that if you were to borrowe $750 million that would put us way beyond the 12 percent cap we have envisioned for the city...ane I cannot be a part y to that,” Gandhi said. The CFO said that he “ver much” wants a hotel for the “but I would not agree to a deallike that.
See we made a commitmenft to Wall Street that we would not borroq more than 12 percent againstour Gandhi, who has won accolades for helpinyg the city snag a AAA bond rating on Wall said he has alread y begun re-emphasizing the importance of the debt cap with membere of the council. “I do not think we want to take this We should not borrow any more than we are able to he said. He suggested that O’Dell and his partnerx continue to seek privatefinancing sources. Building a hotelp to accompany the convention center has always been part of the plan for the city but has languishec from a seriesof complications. Construction on the Walted E.
Washington Convention Center, as it was named in 2007, beganb in 1998 and openes fiveyears later. D.C. planned a 1,400-rookm hotel, but did not control the needed land. In the city gained final site controll after a land swap with developerr KingdonGould III. To prevent further delays Mayor Adrian Fenthy downsized the project laterthat year, announcing a deal betweej the city, Marriott and RLJ Development LLC on a smalleer 1,100-room hotel. Since then, the development team has also RLJ Development, founded by BET founded Robert Johnson, was part of the deal Fenty announcef in September 2007 but isn’r any longer.
A main driver of the Marriott Senior Vice President Norman left the company late last year tostarft Capstone, now a certified business entity that partner s with Quadrangle. Speaking for the developmentg team, Jenkins said it was his preference to continus seekingprivate financing, and said desigh was complete, entitlements were in place and therew equity partners ready to invest if debt were Capstone and Quadrangle are separately planning a Courtyard by Marriott adjacent to the hotep on land they control. “We could stil l get there, but we got to get the banksw to play and they move at theirown pace,” he said.
Still, he “if the city decides to pursure the public deal we will support Jenkinssaid Johnson’s RLJ, with whic Jenkins partnered while at Marriott, pulled out of the deal shortly after taking an interest in it. “Theyg studied it hard, spent some resources, but their bread and butter is acquisitions and repositioning rather than new Jenkins said. Richard Bradley, executivew director of the Downtown BusinessImprovemengt District, said it is unfortunate that the hotel projectt ran into the recession but that the city needs to “bited the bullet” and move the project citing the opportunity to grow D.C.
as a tourist destination, make it a major player in conventionsx and grow itstax base. “There’ a whole set of good things about moving this he said.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Master Gardener: Plant bulbs now for spring - San Jose Mercury News
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tim Fagan Makes Move from HomeFinder.com to CouponCabin.com - AIM Group
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Tim Fagan Makes Move from HomeFinder.com to CouponCabin.com AIM Group Prior to joining CouponCabin.com http://couponcabin.com/, Fagan served as President and Chief Executive Officer of HomeFinder.com , a leading online real estate listings destination based in Chicago, a role he has served since 2006. ... |
Monday, October 3, 2011
Treasury lets 10 banks repay $68B - Baltimore Business Journal:
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According to MarketWatch, and are not among them. The department says the which it did not have met the requirements for repayment established by federakbanking supervisors. It says many banks recentlyu have raised equity capital from privat investors and haveissued long-term debt that is not guaranteecd by the government. “Theses repayments are an encouraging sign offinancial repair, but we still have work to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says. According to the banks permitted to pay back the funds are JPMorgabChase & Co., Goldmab Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, American Bank of New York Mellon, State Street, US Bancorp, BB& Corp., Capital One Financialk Corp.
and Northern Trust. More than 600 banks receivede a total ofnearly $200 billion through the department’z Troubled Asset Relief Program. About $2 billionb of that money was paidback previously. Charlotte-based BofA received a total of $45 billion througnh the program. San Francisco-basefd Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), which acquired of Charlott latelast year, got $25 billion from the TARP which is designed to thaw the creditt markets and boost the economy. Under the banks retiring their preferred stock can repurchase the warrantes held by theTreasury Department. Besides the proceedsa from the sales ofthe warrants, the department also has receivex $4.
5 billion in dividend payments from progranm participants. Proceeds from the repaymentxs will go to theTreasury Department’ds general fund. The funds can be used to reduced the national debt and can serve as a cushionb in case the departmen needs to respond to financiak emergencies inthe future, the department
According to MarketWatch, and are not among them. The department says the which it did not have met the requirements for repayment established by federakbanking supervisors. It says many banks recentlyu have raised equity capital from privat investors and haveissued long-term debt that is not guaranteecd by the government. “Theses repayments are an encouraging sign offinancial repair, but we still have work to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says. According to the banks permitted to pay back the funds are JPMorgabChase & Co., Goldmab Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, American Bank of New York Mellon, State Street, US Bancorp, BB& Corp., Capital One Financialk Corp.
and Northern Trust. More than 600 banks receivede a total ofnearly $200 billion through the department’z Troubled Asset Relief Program. About $2 billionb of that money was paidback previously. Charlotte-based BofA received a total of $45 billion througnh the program. San Francisco-basefd Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), which acquired of Charlott latelast year, got $25 billion from the TARP which is designed to thaw the creditt markets and boost the economy. Under the banks retiring their preferred stock can repurchase the warrantes held by theTreasury Department. Besides the proceedsa from the sales ofthe warrants, the department also has receivex $4.
5 billion in dividend payments from progranm participants. Proceeds from the repaymentxs will go to theTreasury Department’ds general fund. The funds can be used to reduced the national debt and can serve as a cushionb in case the departmen needs to respond to financiak emergencies inthe future, the department
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Someone will be seeing red Saturday night - Chicago Tribune
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Someone will be seeing red Saturday night Chicago Tribune Bears cornerback Zack Bowman has no objection to seeing a reddish college sweatshirt worn around Halas Hall next week. It's just that the former Nebraska standout would prefer the letters on that sweatshirt don't spell out the word Badgers. ... |
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