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Fund spends $93M on former Levitz properties.(Lubert-Adler Real Estate Opportunity Fund II)

Philadelphia Business Journal

| June 04, 1999 | Walsh, Thomas J. | COPYRIGHT 1985 American City Business Journals, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Center City-based financiers Ira Lubert and Dean Adler have invested $93.5 million purchasing 35 properties in nine states from the bankrupt Levitz Furniture chain.

The pair operating as the Lubert-Adler Real Estate Opportunity Fund II, a $300 million equity fund, partnered on the Levitz deal with Chicago-based Klaff Realty LP.

The joint venture, known as Klaff-Adler Inc., is leasing a portion of the stores back to Levitz, and the Boca Raton, Fla.-based retailer said that as a result of the sales, it hopes to "significantly decrease, if not pay down entirely" the company's debt. Levitz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 1997. It now …

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