Health Care REIT in venture for campus

2/24/2010

Health Care REIT Inc. of Toledo said this week that it has formed a $668 million joint venture with Forest City Enterprises under which the real estate investment trust will acquire a 49 percent interest in a seven-building life sciences campus in University Park in Cambridge, Mass., next to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The value of the trust's investment is $327 million. It will invest $170 million in cash and the joint venture will assume $320 million of secured debt on the buildings.