Word: rubloff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other types of contractors have been hammered hard. The construction firm Arthur Rubloff Real Estate and Capital Inc. recently abandoned plans to build a $1 billion commercial and industrial park in suburban Chicago because the company could not obtain a loan. Even developers in Southern California have been feeling the pinch. "Unless you have a couple of lead tenants signed up," says Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce, "lenders don't want to talk...
...committee's plan may be reluctant to make a fuss if it means holding up the bill's progress. The drawn-out process of tax reform, with all its uncertainty, has started to vex corporate leaders because it impedes them from making strategic plans. Complains Stephen Sinclair, president of Rubloff Financial Services in Chicago: "This has been going on since 1984. If they would just make up their minds and tell us what the tax law is going to be, we could go on and do our business." That prospect seems increasingly probable now that the committee's proposal...
CHICAGO'S ARTHUR RUBLOFF, 52, a Russian immigrant's son who began selling real estate at the age of 17, now controls a real-estate firm that grosses $40 million annually, is one of the ten biggest in the U.S. Like Manhattan's William Zeckendorf, Rubloff is a man for grandiose projects, built Chicago's $15 million Evergreen Park shopping center, planned and redeveloped North Kansas City, Mo., launched Chicago's $200 million project to make a "magnificent mile" near the Loop, the city's most spectacular shopping district...
...Fort Dearborn plan (named after the early American fort on the city's site) was largely the work of Architect Nathaniel A. Owings, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Realtor Arthur Rubloff, developer of the sprawling Evergreen Park shopping center on Chicago's southwest side and the postwar "magnificent mile" on the city's famed Michigan Avenue...
Over the years many similar though smaller plans for Chicago have died through lack of interest. What inspires Chicagoans about the Rubloff-Owings concept is the fact that influential businessmen are behind the project. Among them: Hughston M. McBain, chairman of Marshall Field & Co., Willis D. Gale, chairman of Commonwealth Edison, and Arthur T. Leonard, president, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. The sponsors feel that financing will not be a major problem. One suggested plan: establishment of a nonprofit corporate body eligible for city, state and federal land-clearance grants, plus "interested" Eastern insurance money...