Article: New Jersey-Based Real Estate Firm to Buy Outlet Mall-Owner Prime Retail.

By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 9--A New Jersey-based real estate company has agreed to buy financially troubled Prime Retail Inc., the Baltimore-based outlet mall owner, for $638 million, the two companies said yesterday.

The buyer, Lightstone Group LLC, would assume $523 million of Prime Retail's debt and pay shareholders $115 million. While holders of common stock would get 18 cents per share, a premium of 42 percent over the average closing price in June, holders of preferred stock would get $16.25 per share of Series A stock and $8.66 cents per share of Series B stock, premiums of 66 percent ...

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