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Byline: Jeff Pillets and Herb Jackson Feb. 07--The developers of the entertainment and retail complex called Xanadu were frantic. It was March 2005, and permits they'd expected months earlier were [...]

Byline: John Brennan May 09--Triple Five Group's top executives came to the Meadowlands with great fanfare last week, offering a horde of media members a two-hour tour of American Dream [...]

Feb. 1--WHAT'S NEW: The huge abstract mural that graced the facade of the former Alexander's department store in Paramus for 36 years won't be displayed at the Xanadu retail and [...]

Nov. 20--The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has scheduled a special board meeting for Wednesday -- an indication that the long-delayed transfer of power at Meadowlands Xanadu may be [...]

Nov. 3--Mack-Cali is selling its stake in the first phase of Meadowlands Xanadu while retaining its right to build an office/hotel phase at a later date, company President Mitchell Hersh [...]

Oct. 26--An Israeli real estate company announced Wednesday that it has bought a 9 percent stake in troubled Mills Corp. for $110 million and proposed to invest up to $1.2 [...]

Sep. 12--The prospective new developer of the $2 billion Meadowlands Xanadu project appears to be on target for a scheduled Sept. 21 closing, as the New Jersey Sports and Exposition [...]

Sep. 11--Just a few weeks ago, Meadowlands Xanadu was looking like another wreck on the turnpike. Years behind schedule, the ballyhooed retail/entertainment attraction was just a steel skeleton sitting forlornly [...]

Sep. 7--EAST RUTHERFORD -- The $500 million investment that Colony Capital Acquisitions expects to make in the Meadowlands Xanadu retail/entertainment center wouldn't just give the private real estate firm a [...]

Sep. 5--Colony Capital Acquisitions, Xanadu's prospective new owner, is supposed to build the $2 billion project at the Meadowlands Sports Complex according to the current developer's plan. 'At its completion, [...]

Aug. 23--Xanadu lives. An investment firm has agreed to pump up to $500 million into the Meadowlands Xanadu development and secure additional financing. The firm, Colony Capital Acquisitions, is expected [...]

Aug. 18--Governor Corzine said Thursday he is 'deeply troubled' by the tenuous status of Xanadu developer Mills Corp. A day after Mills' stock plummeted as a result of a scathing [...]

Aug. 18--An appellate court on Thursday affirmed court rulings that denied a challenge by Hartz Mountain Industries to the process by which Meadowlands Xanadu was chosen for the Continental Arena [...]

Aug. 17--Analysts' opinion is now unanimous: Don't buy stock in the lead developer of Meadowlands Xanadu. The one analyst who was still endorsing Mills Corp. apologized Wednesday for his 'terrible' [...]

Aug. 15--The struggling developer of Meadowlands Xanadu said Monday that it agreed to sell its stake in three international properties for $981 million. The sale will provide Mills Corp. with [...]

Aug. 12--Shares of Mills Corp. tumbled 30 percent Friday as a top analyst suggested the company should stop work on the Meadowlands Xanadu entertainment and retail complex. 'Mills should cease [...]

Jul. 14--Mills Corp. and Mack-Cali will make a series of tenant announcements for the beleaguered Xanadu project between August and November, a top Meadowlands Sports Complex official said Thursday. A [...]

Jun. 16--Mills Corp. said Thursday it will seek bids from prospective minor-league teams for a baseball park at its Xanadu retail and entertainment complex -- a move adamantly opposed by [...]

May 24--LAS VEGAS -- Two years ago, The Mills Corp. came to the world's largest retail real estate convention to present the Xanadu X-treme show. With flashy film clips and [...]

Oct. 11--A lot of promises were made in February 2003, after the Xanadu plan was chosen for the Continental Arena site redevelopment. But a lot has changed in the past [...]

Oct. 6--EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Mills Corp. chief executive Laurence Siegel calls Xanadu 'the most extraordinary fusion of sports, leisure and family entertainment ever to be assembled under one roof.' [...]

Oct. 5--An executive for Mills Corp. enthusiastically spoke Monday about chocolate waterfalls, indoor skydiving, and a 160-foot-tall outdoor movie screen. But for all of the fanciful entertainment aspects of the [...]

Sep. 7--Environmentalists will get their wish this fall when 600 acres of marshes and wildlife habitat in the heart of the Meadowlands are preserved. But the gift comes at a [...]

Aug. 26--It looks as if there won't be a surcharge on tickets for Meadowlands Sports Complex events after all. The New Jersey Meadowlands Commission is expected to vote this morning [...]

Aug. 25--Sports and music fans who visit the Meadowlands Sports Complex may have to start paying more next year, courtesy of a surcharge on tickets that would help fund mass [...]

Aug. 20--Hartz Mountain Industries of Secaucus, N.J., and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority got a split decision Thursday in their 18-month battle over the selection of the $1.3 [...]

Aug. 4--State and corporate officials will thrust commemorative shovels into the Meadowlands' earth on Sept. 29, its developers said Tuesday, to break ground for the $1.3 billion Xanadu complex at [...]

Aug. 4--State and corporate officials will thrust commemorative shovels into the Meadowlands' earth on Sept. 29, its developers said Tuesday, to break ground for the $1.3 billion Xanadu complex at [...]

Jul. 28--The $1.3 billion Xanadu project isn't a reality yet, but joint developers Mills Corp. and Mack-Cali hope they have found a way, via a Web site, to make the [...]

Jul. 14--Barnes & Noble, after a four-year courtship with Riverside Square mall, made it official Tuesday. It's coming to Hackensack and it will be open Sundays. The bookstore is slated [...]

Jun. 29--RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Bulldozers and front-end loaders moved piles of earth just a few hundred yards from Continental Arena on Monday -- a prelude to a six-week, $72 million [...]

May 25--LAS VEGAS -- The Mills Corp., developer of the Meadowlands Xanadu project, has spent the last few years wooing public officials. This week, Mills is turning on the charm [...]

May 7--Fourteen months ago, environmentalists were popping champagne corks. The deal to build a $1.3 billion consumer playground around Continental Arena also meant that 600 acres of wetlands would be [...]

Mar. 4--The Xanadu project is being fast-tracked to the detriment of the environment, charge environmental groups and neighboring residents, who called on the state for a more thorough review of [...]

Jan. 13--Hartz Mountain Industries filed a second lawsuit against the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority on Monday, citing concerns about the developer's agreement signed last month for the $1.3 [...]

Dec. 11--The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will pay $150 million to build a rail link between the Meadowlands Sports Complex and NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line, [...]

Nov. 27--EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.--Indoor skiers and skateboarders could be mingling with Giants and Devils fans at the Meadowlands Sports Complex by the end of 2005, according to a timetable offered [...]

Nov. 19--The developer's agreement for the $1.3 billion Xanadu redevelopment project has been completed, and a top Meadowlands official said Tuesday that the massive project remains on target for groundbreaking [...]

Nov. 11--After more than a year of negotiations, Mills Corp. and Mack-Cali on Monday finally worked out the last details of a joint operating agreement for the $1.3 billion Xanadu [...]

Oct. 27--He began his career as an architect, designing office buildings in suburban Bergen County, and today 52-year-old Mitchell E. Hersh is at the helm of one of New Jersey's [...]

Oct. 19--The new construction barriers at Riverside Square live up to the mall's slogan: 'Anything but ordinary.' Instead of using stark white plasterboard, the mall is covering construction with barricades [...]

Aug. 31--An indoor snow dome, an extreme-sports skate park, a luxury spa, and a New Jersey Music Hall of Fame. Those attractions would be just part of a mammoth 4.8 [...]

Aug. 14--Hartz Mountain Industries and Westfield Corp. failed in separate bids to prevent the proposed Xanadu complex in the Meadowlands from going forward, according to two sources familiar with the [...]

Aug. 12--Developers tapped to build a $1.3 billion entertainment, retail, and office complex in the Meadowlands will consider also playing a role in refurbishing Continental Arena, the president of the [...]

Aug. 1--EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.--A $1.3 billion redevelopment project at the Continental Arena site may begin in the next few months, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority officials said Wednesday. Both [...]

Dec. 31--For four years, plans to build a sports arena in Newark for the Nets and Devils have progressed at a snail's pace. For six months, plans to redevelop the [...]

Dec. 30--The creeks and marshes of the Meadowlands, for centuries the target of developers and trash dumpers, will soon have historic new protections. Early next year, state officials plan to [...]

Dec. 29--For three decades, the Meadowlands arena has staged epic battles of human sweat and endurance on ice and wood. Now, a new struggle is taking place -- this one [...]

Dec. 29--When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote about Xanadu -- the site of a 'stately pleasure dome' -- he likely wasn't thinking of a swamp. Nevertheless, the Mills Corp. of Virginia [...]

Dec. 19--Fancy an afternoon of schmoozing, nature, shopping, and shipping? Your boat may have come in. Mills Corp. of Arlington., Va., is floating the idea of launching a ferry on [...]