Family Dollar Stores Inc. adopted a one-year poison pill two days after activist investor Carl Icahn reported that hed built a 9.39 percent stake in the company, making him its largest shareholder. Westfields mall at the World Trade Center is rapidly filling with the company having leases signed for about 80 percent of the complexs space. CoStar CEO Andy Florance said that the company could have raised more than $1 billion in a coming public offering. Caterpillar said it plans to shutter three manufacturing facilities in Illinois. These are all among the 10 must reads from around the commercial real estate sector for today.
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