The business park is but a small part of a gigantic "Master Plan" that was drawn up in 1966 by the Irvine company, a private developer that owns a fifth of Orange County.
Bucksbaum paid $12 billion for Rouse, a storied developer that owns 37 shopping malls and a passel of development sites.
So have businesses and individuals who could benefit from the project, including ICI Homes, a real estate developer that owns several sites close to a proposed SunRail station, and Florida Hospital in Orlando, whose $250 million expansion plan is contingent on getting a station on its property.
Westfield America, a real estate investment trust controlled by a major Australian developer that owns several shopping malls in the United States, invested $120 million along with Mr. Silverstein; $100 million of that was borrowed from UBS Warburg.
The NHP Foundation, a nonprofit housing developer that owns 6,000 apartments in New Jersey and Connecticut, is also bidding on the complex, and its partner, the Related Companies, would manage Starrett City.
This is an industry that is finding a growing acceptance on the part of both merchants and mall owners, said Keith Laird, vice president of specialty leasing for Westfield America, a Los Angeles-based mall developer that owns the 1-million-square-foot South Shore mall.
"I've had friends from New York and California, all across the country, e-mailing me about this, and everyone says the same thing: Philly's done it again," said Nicole Cashman, a publicist, who represents Yaron Properties, the developer that owns the building.
The New York City Opera, recently in talks to build a concert hall in the base of a residential tower near Lincoln Center on the site of the former American Red Cross building, announced yesterday that it will not proceed because of an inability to reach agreement with the developer that owns the site.
In the meantime, we are grateful to the first responders on the scene and praying that everyone is OK," said Mark Sullivan, a spokesman for the Finger Companies, the real-estate developer that owns the building.
Brookfield Properties, the developer that owns the land and offers it for public use, is presumably sending few notes of gratitude to the police.
