Canyon Park - CarrAmerica Portfolios A & B

Reggie Middleton has a piece about commercial real estate on Zerohedge today, and there is a short snippet about Canyon Park that includes a PDF with pictures of the empty building (and the photographer on his bike in a few shots ;). At least some of the buildings inside Canyon Park are in the CarrAmerica Portfolios in CGCMT 2006-FL2 with a fully extended maturity date of 8/9/2011 , and one of them (Nexus - Canyon Park Laboratory -- LBUBS 2001-C3) has a 12/11/2010 ARD date.

Note the B note on the CarrAmerica loan serves as collateral in the CAN1, CAN2, and CAN3 rake legs on CGCMT 2006-Fl2.

HP Job Cuts - 9,000 positions

I know they said 3,000, but at the end of the day they're cutting 9,000 positions in their "Enterprise Services" division and adding elsewhere.

This division is primarily located in the following locations inside the US:
5400 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX‎ (no real exposure, but this is down the street from another HP office that happens to be in CarrAmerica portfolio - CGCMT 2006-FL2)
13600 Eds Drive, Herndon, VA‎ (no CMBS exposure found)
500 Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI‎ (GM Building FUNBC 2001-C4 - matured & paid 10/29/2009)
335 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100, Louisville, CO 80027 (no CMBS exposure found)

Other US locations include:
6901 Windcrest Dr, Plano, TX‎ (no CMBS exposure found)
975 Eastwind Drive, Westerville, OH‎ (no CMBS exposure found)
500 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR‎ (no CMBS exposure found)
1434 Crossways Boulevard, Chesapeake, VA‎ (no CMBS exposure found)
1800 Southwest 1st Avenue, Portland, OR‎ (SLCMT 1997-C1 - paid off 2/1/06)

CMBS In the News

The WSJ reports on 3 CMBS stories:

Notes the loan is going into a multi-sponsor deal slated for the 2nd quarter.

The owner of the Keystone Summit Corporate Park, private-equity firm Keystone Property Group, recently refinanced the building for $53.5 million, including a $41.5 million first mortgage from Deutsche Bank AG and a $12 million junior loan from Pembrook Capital. What makes this deal stand out is the plan Deutsche Bank has for the first mortgage.

First Ritz to ever default. Ever. Described by a former colleague as 45 minutes into the desert, the middle of nowhere.

The hotel's closure is the latest stumble for the Lake Las Vegas development, which was planned around a manmade lake roughly 15 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip. Developer Transcontinental Corp., led by Ron Boeddeker and Texas tycoons Sid Bass and Lee Bass, began developing the 3,600-acre project in the 1990s to include thousands of upscale homes, three golf courses, a small casino and two resorts. But Transcontinental defaulted on a $540 million loan from lenders led by Credit Suisse and sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the project last year..

Regarding the MBA default on their building, Petrie calls Kempner a dolt:

The worst part of buying "that stupid office building," Mr. Petrie says, was that it led to emergency cost-cutting that forced the MBA to dismiss some "wonderful people" on its staff. Mr. Kempner, who resigned in 2008, says the board approved the purchase unanimously. "It was not my decision," he says. An MBA spokeswoman declined to comment.

I'm not even going to do an outake of this FT story - the reporter did a poor job writing this up - but maybe this is of interest to someone because it has opinions based on a survey of how various markets will perform (including CDOs and CMBS).

Also in the FT, the Beltway Battle, discusses the attempted takeout by Brookfield for CarrAmerica's DC properties, that Tishman has defaulted on. I initially thought the article was talking about the CarrAmerica portfolios in BALL 2006-BIX1 and CGCMT 2006-FL2, but the addresses listed in the article do not match up.