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W. P. Carey Inc. () is a publicly traded REIT (NYSE: WPC): a corporate financing firm headquartered at Rockefeller Center in New York City, United States. The firm was founded in 1973 by William Polk Carey.〔Terry Pristin, (Times Co. Is in Talks to Sell Part of Building ), ''New York Times'', January 23, 2009〕 George Stoddard joined the business in 1979 and served as chair of its Investment Committee. The company was a pioneer of the sale-and-leaseback transaction, which it used in 1982 to help the Wesray Corporation finance its acquisition of Gibson Greeting Cards through a leveraged buyout and in 1983 to finance Wesray's buyout of Heekin Can.〔 W. P. Carey provides long-term sale-leaseback and build-to-suit financing for companies worldwide and manages an investment portfolio of approximately $15.8 billion. In 2009 the company bought 21 floors of the 52-story New York Times Building on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan for $225 million under a sale-and-leaseback arrangement in which the newspaper's publisher agreed to lease space in the building for up to 15 years, while retaining the right to buy the building back in 2019 for a price of $250 million.〔Hui-yong Yu and Greg Bensinger, (New York Times Sells Building Stake for $225 Million ), Bloomberg News, March 9, 2009〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「W. P. Carey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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