Since then, the church has parlayed that gift into a rich portfolio of office buildings, stock investments and, soon, mixed-use residential development.
It is filling in gaps in its portfolio of office copiers and printers and is strengthening offerings of high-margin services, like maintaining customers' electronic archives.
Investor unrest erupted in late July, when Brookfield Properties unveiled plans to acquire an Australian portfolio of office properties owned by B.A.M. and sell its residential business to a unit of B.A.M. without an auction.
Prices for the units, which went on sale on Oct. 13, start at $525,000 and reach $1.75 million, according to Marcello Porcelli, president of the LargaVista Companies, a developer based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, whose portfolio includes office buildings and franchise restaurants in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Built up portfolio of office properties, including the Bank of America Center in San Francisco.
Today diverse portfolio includes office buildings in Los Angeles, shopping mall in Chicago, luxury hotels.
American Assets is a 45-year-old company based in San Diego that has a high-quality diversified portfolio of office, residential and retail properties.
The firm, which also offers its portfolio companies office space and administrative services, previously invested $500,000 in Cemmerce last year.
And soon, turmoil in Portfolio's offices, along with incessant leaks to blogs and tabloids, made Lipman seem a caricature of the imperious Condé Nast editor, ruling from on high, out of touch.
It's for the people who run or own the banks, the hedge funds, the mining companies, the advertising firms, the lobbying companies, the weapons manufacturers, the buy-to-let portfolios, the office blocks, the country estates, the offshore accounts.
