Article: Block 37: The Buck angle; Developer pulls up a chair as adviser to project's lender.(NEWS)(Bank of America Corp.)

Byline: ALBY GALLUN AND THOMAS A. CORFMAN

John Buck is playing a behind-the-scenes role in the financial drama unfolding at Block 37, a job that could give the real estate mogul the inside track if the project's lender decides to bring in a new developer.

Sources say Block 37 lender Bank of America N.A. hired Mr. Buck's firm last spring as an adviser on the star-crossed downtown shopping mall, which faces an uncertain future after the bank filed a $128-million foreclosure suit last weekless than a month before its planned opening.

Unless developer Joseph Freed & Associates LLC agrees to put more money in the project, which is about $34 million ...

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