Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woes of Freedomland began even before the first spade of earth for the 205-acre playground was turned. A plan to sell stock to finance the venture flopped; William Zeckendorfs Webb & Knapp, which owned the land and leased it to Freedomland's promoter, the International Recreation Corp., had to buy 40% of the stock for $7,000,000. This financing proved too little-partly because builders overshot the estimated $17.5 million construction cost...
...Barricades to hold back crowds at the Chicago fire exhibit were often hardly needed. Business on weekends, the most crowded time at other New York entertainment parks, dropped 20% below the weekday rate. The park lost money on all but the biggest days. To protect its investment, Zeckendorf and Webb & Knapp, which had stayed out of International Recreation's management, stepped in and took charge...
...Little Cash. Webb & Knapp fired or demoted Freedomland's managers, cut operating costs from $40,000 to $25,000 a day, jumped adult admission charges from $1 to $1.50. In August, says the new management, the park made an average operating profit of $20,000 a day. But W. & K. is still stuck with 40% of the stock and $4,000,000 in unpaid construction bills-and the stock, issued at $17.50, has plummeted to a low of $6.25. To meet these bills, Bill Zeckendorf is preparing a plan for new financing, to save both Freedomland and Webb & Knapp...
...characteristically complicated financing plan, Webb & Knapp will buy $11.5 million in convertible debentures from International Recreation, which will use $3,000,000 of this sum to pay off its construction bills, use the remaining $8,500,000 to buy the leases of Webb & Knapp's Astor, Manhattan, and Commodore Hotels, thus returning the cash to Webb & Knapp. With the purchase of the debentures, Webb & Knapp will have further control over Freedomland and an $18.5 million stake in it. The park will be run by officials appointed by the real estate firm. By taking over the midtown Manhattan hotels, Freedomland...
...year lease (with options) on Manhattan's posh St. Regis Hotel to Mexico's Cesar Balsa, 37, a onetime bellhop whose nine-hotel chain in Mexico City and Acapulco is the largest in Central America. The sale completed the financial legerdemain begun last February when Webb & Knapp bought the St. Regis for $14 million. Two months later it sold the hotel to Manhattan's Kratter Corp. for $11 million, kept operating control. Webb & Knapp's estimated profit on the St. Regis deals...