Equity One, Inc. was a
real estate investment trust
A real estate investment trust (REIT, pronounced "reet") is a company that owns, and in most cases operates, income-producing real estate. REITs own many types of real estate, including office and apartment buildings, studios, warehouses, hos ...
that invested in
shopping center
A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, ...
s in New York, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Florida. As of December 31, 2016, it owned 122 properties comprising 12.8 million square feet.
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In March 2017, the company was acquired by Regency Centers.
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History
The company was founded in 1992 and became a public company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of share capital, stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) co ...
via an initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investm ...
in 1998.[
In March 2017, the company was acquired by Regency Centers.]
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Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
1998 initial public offerings
2017 mergers and acquisitions