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Neil Bluhm is a founder and President of JMB Realty Corporation, and senior partner of Walton Street Capital. He graduated from the University of Illinois in accounting. Accountant, he also graduated from law school at Northwestern University.

Walton Street Capital invests in real estate in partnership with institutional and individual investors. JMB and its subsidiaries operate in the real estate investment and development. JMB owns luxury hotels and office buildings, and with its partners, has AMFAC, Inc.., Owner of land in Hawaii. AMFAC Parks & Resorts is also the manager of national parks in the United States including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone.

Neil Bluhm, through its affiliated partnerships, is an investor and chairman of Falls Management Company, operator and developer of a casino in Niagara Falls, Canada.

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Smith Tower:-Seattle, restoration of an apartment, 142 feet above Seattle.

Smith Tower was built in Seattle, there are nearly 100 years, exactly in 1913, located in Pioneer Square, the Smith Tower is one of the oldest in Seattle. It was the highest office building west of the Mississippi for nearly a quarter of the century until the Kansas Power Citi dethroned him in 1931.

Smith Tower was built in Seattle, there are nearly 100 years, exactly in 1913, located in Pioneer Square, the Smith Tower is one of the oldest in Seattle. It was the highest office building west of the Mississippi for nearly a quarter of the century until the Kansas Power Citi dethroned him in 1931.

With its white terra cotta facade and a pyramidal roof capped the 42-storey tower is a design icon of the American Fine Arts. "The New York Times recently published an article in which he referred to Smith and turn in particular to a specific apartment in case the one at the top in the roof Pyramida, dubbed the lighthouse. Designed by architects Castanse the incredible adaptation includes spaces and transformed into a penthouse with three floors, highlighted by one of the greatest views of the Pacific Northwest.

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Like many old buildings, The Smith Tower is passed into the hands of many owners, especially in recent decades, the Foundation Sami Walton Street Capital. Following these changes in ownership, the building has been renovated twice, in 1986 and 1999. Associated with the city's historic Pioneer Square, the tower dominates the southern half of downtown. In the past, within the pyramidal roof was used for small units of maintenance men who shared space. Inside, too, there was a reservoir of 38,000 liters of water to extinguish a possible fire. The tank was then removed to allow the arrangement of interior space converted to 533 square meters and with 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 historic apartment. The restoration has proposed the implementation of its neo-Gothic gratify all the space with natural light, even on cloudy days, with of course an endless panorama breathtaking. The apartment is currently the only home of Smith Tower.

Parts of the renovations have made use of waste materials recovered from the building, and a huge slab of marble was salvaged to form the kitchen counter, and ornamentation that surrounds the tub. Noble wood panels were used to conceptualize the interior woodwork, renovated the interior leads to a spiral staircase which gives access to space, perhaps the most magical, a glass box sitting atop the tower 142 meters High where the answer to a true panorama, the view of the emerald city, Puget Sound, Cascade Mountains and Mt Rainer and beyond.

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Bids for the purchase of U.S. real estate group EOP are soaring. Vornado has proposed some $ 39 billion after the $ 36 billion that Blackstone was willing to pay to acquire its target. No doubt we will see is the largest private equity transaction ever.

According to the Financial Times, a trio of investors led by Vornado Realty Trust have made an offer of $ 39.2 billion for the repurchase of Equity Office Properties (EOP), the real estate empire built by Sam Zell.

The consortium is composed of Barry Sternlicht (Starwood Capital Group Global) and Neil Bluhm (Walton Street Capital). Their offer, 60% and 40% in cash securities, amounted to $ 52 per share, or 7% more than the proposal made by Blackstone, which is $ 48.50 (20 billion dollars, plus a cover 16 billion of debt, totaling $ 36 billion).

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Vornado intends to finance its bid with $ 13.4 billion capital and 25.8 billion loan. He said it had obtained financing from Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, UBS Securities and RBS Greenwich Capital.

Vornado's decision to make a bid for EOP cons boosted the appetite for real estate overseas.

If EOP has accepted an offer from Blackstone last November, he was already the largest operation ever conducted by a fund after the acquisition this summer of HCA hospital group by Kolberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for the modest sum of $ 33 billion.

Among the other candidates in the running: Cerberus Capital Management. Chaired by John Snow, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Cerberus was especially distinguished in its offensive, stranded on Toys 'R' Us last year. And in 2006, the fund has acquired 51% of GMAC, the financing arm of General Motors.

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