CLEVELAND, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Forest City Enterprises, Inc., (NYSE: FCEA and FCEB) today announced that it recently completed the disposition of two assets in non-core markets.

In Florida, the company closed the sale of Emerald Palms, a 505-unit apartment community in the Kendall/South Dade submarket in southwest Miami, to Grand Peaks Properties for approximately $70.5 million, reflecting a cap rate of approximately 5.0 percent based on estimated 2012 net operating income. The disposition generated net cash proceeds to Forest City of approximately $45.2 million.

In San Jose, California, the company completed the sale of Fairmont Plaza, a 17-story, 405,000-square-foot downtown office building, to CBRE Global Investors for approximately $93.1 million, representing a cap rate of approximately 7.0 percent based on estimated 2012 net operating income. The sale generated net cash proceeds to Forest City of approximately $28.1 million.

"We continue to execute on our strategy of focusing on our primary core markets - New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Denver, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco," said David J. LaRue, Forest City president and chief executive officer. "We will use liquidity from dispositions such as these to continue to reduce debt and improve our balance sheet, invest in our mature portfolio and activate entitled development opportunities in core markets."

Including these dispositions, since the beginning of its fiscal 2012, Forest City has completed 12 dispositions, including both fully consolidated and unconsolidated (equity-method) assets, generating more than $125 million in net cash proceeds.

About Forest City
Forest City Enterprises, Inc. is an NYSE-listed national real estate company with $10.7 billion in total assets. The company is principally engaged in the ownership, development, management and acquisition of commercial and residential real estate and land throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.forestcity.net.

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