Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 26, 2000

Milton Cooper – Kimco Realty Corporation (kim)

MILTON COOPER is Chairman of Kimco Realty Corporation. Kimco, a New York Stock Exchange Real Estate Investment Trust based in New Hyde Park, New York, has interests in over 472 shopping center properties, comprising approximately 62 million square feet of leasable space located throughout 40 states. He is also Director of Getty Realty Corp., Blue Ridge Real Estate/Big Boulder Corporation (a public company owning 20,000 acres of land and ski facilities in Pennsylvania), MassMutual Corporate Investors and MassMutual Participation Investors, as well as former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and of the Shopping Center Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York, and member of the Advisory Board of the Real Estate Institute of NYU and a member of the Bar of the State of New York. Profile
TWST: Could you begin by giving us a brief overview of Kimco Realty

Corporation ' the company's history, activities, those kinds of things?

Mr. Cooper: Kimco built its first shopping center in