WestShore Plaza owner may change WestShore Plaza could have a new owner soon. Current owner Glimcher Realty Trust is close to a deal to sell a 60 percent stake in WestShore and one other mall to private equity firm Blackstone Group LP for $195 million, the Wall Street Journal said, citing unnamed sources. ...more

November 4, 2009

Busch Entertainment Corp. on Monday will raise admission prices at its Tampa and Orlando theme parks, but Florida residents booking online can get 2010 year-long passes at the same price as 2009, which will be $5 less than the new general admission for a day. ...more

October 31, 2009

Anheuser-Busch InBev says it will sell theme parks including Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay to Blackstone Group for $2.7 billion, the Associated Press reported this morning. ...more

October 7, 2009

Busch Gardens may be closer to having a new owner. Blackstone Group LP, a New York-based investment firm, is looking into a deal to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev's theme parks, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. It cited an unidentified source. ...more

September 24, 2009

Blackstone Group LP, a New York-based investment firm, is looking into a possible deal to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev's theme parks, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. ...more

September 23, 2009

In one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street's history, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself to Bank of America for roughly $50 billion to avert a deepening financial crisis while another prominent securities firm, Lehman Brothers, hurtled toward liquidation after it failed to find a buyer, people briefed on the deals said. ...more

September 15, 2008

Over the weekend, a British newspaper gave another stir to the pot of rumors surrounding the fate of Busch Gardens when its parent company, Anheuser-Busch Cos., is sold to Belgian-owned brewing giant InBev. ...more

August 5, 2008

State-of-the-art rides, good management and free beer samples helped Busch Gardens Tampa Bay build a strong reputation for family fun. But that could change if Busch Gardens comes under foreign ownership, a strong possibility if parent company Anheuser-Busch is acquired by Belgian brewer InBev. ...more

July 8, 2008

NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications, ending a drawn-out process that had attracted interest from several major media companies. ...more

July 7, 2008

The hope at Lehman Bros. is that a management shakeup Thursday will contain the damage of a stunning quarterly loss - yet some on Wall Street fear this is one more step toward a more dramatic outcome for the embattled investment bank. ...more

June 13, 2008