One of the foremost urban real estate developers in the New York metropolitan area, Forest City Ratner Companies maintains a strong commitment to developments that enhance local communities and encourage economic development. Based in Brooklyn, Forest City Ratner Companies is a full-service, vertically integrated real estate company with expertise in all facets of development. It is well known as a firm that consistently takes on and completes large, complex mixed-use projects.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Forest City Enterprises, Forest City Ratner Companies has developed, and currently owns and operates 11 million square feet of commercial property in the New York metropolitan area, including office, retail and residential.

In Manhattan, our projects and properties include:

• The New York Times Building, offering premium, Class A office space and ground-level retail and designed by the world-renowned Renzo Piano Building Workshop of Genoa and Paris, in association with FXFowle Architects of New York.
• 8 Spruce Street (also known as New York by Gehry), a 76-story mixed-use building in Lower Manhattan, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry. The tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, it includes market-rate rental apartments, a pre-K through 8th grade public school, an ambulatory care facility for New York Downtown Hospital, ground-floor retail space and one level of below-grade hospital parking.

In Brooklyn, our projects and properties include:

• MetroTech Center, a 16-acre corporate campus located in downtown Brooklyn, just minutes away from Wall Street. Office towers surround a 3.3-acre, park-like open space that lends a campus feel to the development. Ground floor space in each building provides retail services for the center's tenants.
• DKLB BKLN, a 34-story residential rental tower designed by noted architect Costas Kondylis, providing views of the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor and Brooklyn. As a part of Forest City's commitment to Sustainability, it is designed for LEED certification with the U.S. Green Building Council.

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