{"id":13650,"date":"2010-02-01T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:15:31","slug":"fortress-may-sue-canadian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13650","title":{"rendered":"Fortress May Sue Canadian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/intrawest.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/intrawest.jpg','popup','width=103,height=46,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/intrawest-tm.jpg\" height=\"44\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Intrawest\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortressinv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortress Investment Group<\/a><\/strong>, the parent company of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerblackcomb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whistler-Blackcomb<\/a><\/strong> owner<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrawest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Intrawest<\/a><\/strong>, is reportedly trying to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13272\" target=\"_blank\">fight off foreclosure<\/a><\/strong> by offering cash to lenders, according to sources quoted in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/ski_venue_cold_cash_CI7Dzm00ESILjSYEvdc0YN\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. On top of that, they&#8217;re trying to get $90 million which they say  the Canadian government owes them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fortress says it is negotiating with the Canadian government, which it says promised to make it whole for the time Whistler\/Blackcomb mountain is used for the Olympics. Intrawest is trying to get roughly $90 million, and wants to be paid before the Games start on Feb. 12, a source said. . . If it does not get paid, Fortress plans to start legal proceedings, the source added. It is unclear if that could disrupt the Winter Olympics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that even the Winter Olympics have some high hurdle events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/ski_venue_cold_cash_CI7Dzm00ESILjSYEvdc0YN\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortress Investment Group, the parent company of Whistler-Blackcomb owner Intrawest, is reportedly trying to fight off foreclosure by offering cash to lenders, according to sources quoted in the New York Post. On top of that, they&#8217;re trying to get $90 million which they say the Canadian government owes them. Fortress says it is negotiating with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13651,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}