Richard Baker
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1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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so to me the real estate was worth a lot more so now i have a you know i'm a real estate guy i got a real estate lawyer and i got uh uh another fellow who's who i brought in to help me with the operating company and i'm negotiating day and night on this purchase agreement to buy this you know uh 40 it was a 51 store chain 49 pieces of real estate and
I'm talking to my father every night and he's like, what are you doing?
We're in the shopping center business.
You know, we build shopping centers for 10 million or 20 million, or we just build one for a hundred million.
We don't buy $1.2 billion operating companies.
What are you doing?
And they're not going to enter into a purchase, uh,
Every one of those shopping centers I developed, I had a single purpose LLC that had no assets.
And I got a free option, free purchase agreement to buy that shopping center.
He's like, they're not going to let you, they're not going to sell you Lord and Taylor like it's a vacant piece of farmland with a no asset, single purpose entity.
They're represented by Goldman Sachs,
JP Morgan and scat and ARPs.
That's not going to happen.
I'm like, relax.
I'm going to keep going through the process here.
The entity I was using was something called NRDC NRDC equity partners fund seven.
And that was what was in the papers.
I made it up.
It was just a single purpose entity and we're negotiating and we're negotiating.
One day in, I guess it was a late September in 2006.
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