One of the foremost developers, owners and operators of distinctive urban real estate in the New York metropolitan area, Forest City Ratner Companies committed to projects that enhance local communities and encourage economic development. Based in Brooklyn, Forest City Ratner Companies is a full-service, vertically integrated company with expertise in all facets of development, ownership and management of real estate.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Forest City Enterprises, Forest City Ratner Companies has developed, and currently owns and operates 32 properties, totaling 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 with ground-floor retail surround a 3.3-acre, park-like open space that lends a campus feel to the development.
• DKLB BKLN, a 34-story residential rental tower with views of the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor and Brooklyn. As a part of Forest City's commitment to sustainability, it is LEED Silver certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.

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