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Timeline: The Evolution of GGPTimeline: The Evolution of GGP

NREI takes a look at General Growth Properties' history, from its founding to eventual acquisition by Brookfield Property Partners.

Mary Diduch

April 5, 2017

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With the sale of General Growth Properties Inc. (GGP), a Chicago-based REIT that owns some 120 retail assets throughout the U.S., to Brookfield Property Partners LP, a division of Toronto-based alternative assets manager Brookfield Asset Management Inc., many analysts feel the mall sector has been devalued. But what led to such a transaction, one of the few large-scale moves in the mall space in some time? NREI takes a look at GGP’s history, from its founding to eventual acquisition by Brookfield.

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Mary Diduch

Mary Diduch is a contributing writer for WMRE.